U+18CA3 "𘲣" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18CA3 "𘲣" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historically significant writing system used by the Khitan people during the Liao dynasty in northern China. This script was employed primarily to record the phonetic sounds of the Khitan language, which is now extinct, and was deciphered through painstaking comparative analysis with known texts and Chinese sources. The character itself represents one of many logographic or syllabic signs within this complex script, which was officially encoded in Unicode to preserve and enable digital study of this ancient writing system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18CA3
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	𘲣
HTML Hex Encoding	𘲣
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB2 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDCA3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018CA3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udca3

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