U+18C72 "𘱲" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18C72 "𘱲" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic or syllabic glyph from the historical Khitan Small Script, a writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao dynasty in northern China during the 10th to 12th centuries. Representing a single syllable or concept in the now extinct Khitan language, this character is part of a collection of over 400 known signs that were deciphered in modern times through comparative analysis with Chinese texts. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient script, which remains only partially understood and is key to unlocking the linguistic and cultural history of the Khitan Empire.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18C72
Version Added	13.0
Name	Khitan Small Script Character-#
Block	Khitan Small Script
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𘱲
HTML Hex Encoding	𘱲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB1 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDC72
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018C72
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udc72

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Khitan Small Script
Script Extensions	Khitan Small Script
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes