U+18C78 "饦备" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18C78 "饦备" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people who ruled parts of northern China during the Liao Dynasty from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This script was primarily employed for writing the Khitan language, which remains largely undeciphered, and its characters are logographic or syllabic in nature, representing words or syllables rather than individual sounds. The exact phonetic value or meaning of this particular character has not been definitively identified, as scholarly understanding of the script is still incomplete due to limited surviving texts and lack of a comprehensive bilingual key. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard, specifically in the Khitan Small Script block, allows for the digital preservation and study of this ancient script, helping researchers to represent and analyze it in modern computing environments.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘱸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘱸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0xB1 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD823 0xDC78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018C78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud823\udc78 |
Unicode Properties