U+18C97 "𘲗" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18C97 "𘲗" Khitan Small Script Character-# is part of the Khitan Small Script block, a logographic and syllabic writing system historically used by the Khitan people, who ruled the Liao dynasty in northern China from the 10th to the 12th centuries. This specific character represents an unassigned or unidentified glyph from that script, as many Khitan Small Script characters have not yet been fully deciphered or linked to a precise phonetic or semantic value. Its inclusion in Unicode, beginning with version 13.0 in 2020, helps preserve and make accessible this rare script for scholarly research and digital representation, even though its exact meaning remains unknown to modern linguists.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18C97
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	𘲗
HTML Hex Encoding	𘲗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB2 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDC97
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018C97
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udc97

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