U+18CAD "𘲭" Khitan Small Script Character-# Unicode Character

U+18CAD "𘲭" Khitan Small Script Character-# is part of the Khitan Small Script block, a historical writing system used by the Khitan people who ruled northern China during the Liao Dynasty (907–1125 CE). This specific character represents a unique logographic or syllabic glyph from that script, which was employed for writing the now-extinct Khitan language. It was encoded in Unicode’s Supplementary Multilingual Plane under the name "Khitan Small Script Character-#", with the "#" indicating that its precise phonetic or semantic value remains unidentified by modern scholars. The inclusion of such characters in Unicode helps preserve and enable digital study of this ancient script, which was deciphered only in part through centuries of epigraphic research.