U+18CAD "𘲭" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18CAD "𘲭" Khitan Small Script Character-# is part of the Khitan Small Script block, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people who ruled northern China during the Liao Dynasty (907–1125 CE). This specific character represents a unique logographic or syllabic glyph from that script, which was employed for writing the now-extinct Khitan language. It was encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane under the name "Khitan Small Script Character-#", with the "#" indicating that its precise phonetic or semantic value remains unidentified by modern scholars. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode helps preserve and enable digital study of this ancient script, which was deciphered only in part through centuries of epigraphic research.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18CAD
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	𘲭
HTML Hex Encoding	𘲭
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB2 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDCAD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018CAD
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udcad

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