U+18CA9 "𘲩" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𘲩

U+18CA9 "𘲩" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph representing a logographic or syllabic element from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China around the 10th to 12th centuries. This script, which remains only partially deciphered, was employed alongside the Khitan Large Script and Chinese characters for recording the Khitan language, now extinct. The character U+18CA9 is one of many encoded in the Unicode Standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane under the Khitan Small Script block, facilitating its digital representation for scholarly research into medieval East Asian linguistics and epigraphy. Its precise phonetic or semantic value is not definitively known, as decipherment efforts rely on comparative analysis of manuscript fragments and bilingual inscriptions.

General Properties

Code Point U+18CA9
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 𘲩
HTML Hex Encoding 𘲩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x98 0xB2 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD823 0xDCA9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00018CA9
C/C++/Java Escape \ud823\udca9

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