U+18C86 "𘲆" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘲆

U+18C86 "𘲆" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical logophonetic writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This script was employed to write the now-extinct Khitan language and remains only partially deciphered, with characters like this one representing phonetic syllables or logographic morphemes that scholars continue to study through inscriptions on monuments, coins, and official seals. The inclusion of U+18C86 in the Unicode Standard, part of the Khitan Small Script block approved in version 13.0 (2020), ensures its digital preservation and facilitates global research into the linguistic history of the Khitan culture. Its exact meaning in the ancient language is not fully understood, as many such characters await further discovery in the ongoing academic effort to decode this extinct script.

General Properties

Code Point U+18C86
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 𘲆
HTML Hex Encoding 𘲆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xB2 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD823 0xDC86
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018C86
C/C++/Java Escape \ud823\udc86

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