U+18B57 "𘭗" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B57 "𘭗" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a logogram from the Khitan Small Script, a writing system historically used by the Khitan people to record the Khitan language during the Liao dynasty in northern China. This specific character, encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane, represents one of the hundreds of distinct glyphs in the script, which combined phonetic and ideographic elements to transcribe a now-extinct language. The Khitan Small Script was deciphered primarily through comparative analysis with Chinese historical records and bilingual inscriptions, though many characters, including U+18B57, retain uncertain or debated phonetic and semantic values. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve this rare script for digital scholarship and historical study.