U+18B98 "𘮘" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18B98 "𘮘" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a logographic glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a writing system used by the Khitan people of the Liao dynasty in northern China during the 10th to 12th centuries. This specific character represents a syllable or a morpheme within the script, which was primarily employed for writing the Khitan language, a now extinct member of the Mongolic or Para-Mongolic family. The Khitan Small Script, unlike its larger counterpart, was composed of a complex array of over 300 characters, combining phonetic and semantic elements. Although many of these characters remain undeciphered, efforts by modern linguists and epigraphers have gradually pieced together their meanings using bilingual inscriptions and comparative studies. The inclusion of U+18B98 in the Unicode Standard ensures its digital preservation, allowing for scholarly research and codification of this ancient script’s rich heritage.