U+18CA8 "𘲨" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18CA8 "𘲨" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logogram or syllabogram belonging to the Khitan Small Script, a writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China between the 10th and 12th centuries. This script was employed for recording the now-extinct Khitan language and remains only partially deciphered by modern scholars. As a component of the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, its inclusion allows for the digital preservation and study of this historical script, enabling researchers to analyze its phonetic and semantic values despite the challenges of incomplete linguistic understanding.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18CA8
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	𘲨
HTML Hex Encoding	𘲨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB2 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDCA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018CA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udca8

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