U+18C90 "𘲐" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘲐
U+18C90 "𘲐" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logogram or syllable used within the Khitan small script, a writing system developed in the 10th century by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China to represent their now-extinct language. This character is part of the Unicode 13.0 standard, encoded in the Khitan Small Script block, and it serves as a critical tool for scholars attempting to decipher and reconstruct the historical phonology and vocabulary of the Khitan language through preserved epigraphic inscriptions and manuscripts. Its inclusion in Unicode enables digital preservation, cross-platform text representation, and academic study of this ancient script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18C90 |
| 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 | 𘲐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘲐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0xB2 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD823 0xDC90 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018C90 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud823\udc90 |
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 |