U+18CBD "饦步" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+18CBD "饦步" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific logographic or syllabic glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a partially deciphered writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao Dynasty in northern China (907–1125 CE). This script, composed of hundreds of distinct characters, was employed to write the now extinct Khitan language before falling out of use after the dynasty's fall. The character itself is identified by its unique code point in the Unicode standard, having been included in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane as part of a broader effort to encode historic scripts, thereby enabling digital preservation and scholarly study of this ancient writing system. Despite ongoing research, the exact phonetic value or meaning of this particular character remains uncertain, as many Khitan Small Script signs are still not fully decoded, but its inclusion in Unicode ensures it can be reliably represented in modern text.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𘲽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𘲽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x98 0xB2 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD823 0xDCBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00018CBD |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud823\udcbd |
Unicode Properties