U+18CAE "𘲮" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18CAE "𘲮" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic symbol from the Khitan Small Script, a writing system used during the Liao Dynasty in northern China (907–1125 CE) to record the now-extinct Khitan language. This character represents one of hundreds of distinct signs in the script, each typically denoting a syllable or a word, and its exact phonetic value and meaning remain unconfirmed due to the limited decipherment of the Khitan language. The inclusion of U+18CAE in Unicode via the Supplementary Multilingual Plane preserves this historical glyph for digital study, ensuring that scholars and linguists can access and analyze it as part of ongoing efforts to decode the script's grammar and lexicon.

General Properties

Code Point	U+18CAE
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	𘲮
HTML Hex Encoding	𘲮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x98 0xB2 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD823 0xDCAE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00018CAE
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud823\udcae

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