U+18C77 "𘱷" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘱷
U+18C77 "𘱷" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the historical Khitan Small Script, a writing system used during the Liao Dynasty (907–1125 CE) in northern China to record the Khitan language. This script, which is only partially deciphered, consists of over 400 distinct characters that represent syllables and words, and U+18C77 is one of the many individual signs that have been cataloged as part of the Unicode standard for the purpose of digital preservation. Its exact phonetic value and meaning remain uncertain due to the ongoing scholarly efforts to reconstruct the Khitan language, but it plays a role in helping researchers compare and analyze textual fragments from monuments and manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18C77 |
| 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 | 𘱷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘱷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xB1 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD823 0xDC77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018C77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud823\udc77 |
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 |