U+18BF5 "𘯵" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18BF5 "𘯵" Khitan Small Script Character-# is a specific glyph from the Khitan Small Script, a historical writing system used from the 10th to the 12th century by the Khitan people, who founded the Liao Dynasty in northern China. This script was primarily employed for administrative, literary, and ritual purposes, and it consists of over 400 distinct characters, many of which represent syllables or semantic units. The character U+18BF5 falls within the Khitan Small Script block that was added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of version 14.0, enabling digital preservation and study of this extinct language. Although the exact phonetic or semantic value of this particular character is not definitively known, it contributes to the ongoing scholarly effort to decode and understand the Khitan language, which remains only partially deciphered due to the limited corpus of surviving inscriptions and texts.