Khitan Small Script character 18B3E

𘬾 is a Khitan Small Script phonogram, a sound sign in an old system for the Khitan language; a 2009 index reconstructs its value as “hor,” not a word meaning. Sound signs usually cluster into words. Traditional accounts date the script to around 925 and link it to Uyghur writing; its Chinese-shaped forms influenced Jurchen scripts. Its earliest securely dated inscription is from 1051, leaving the chronology debated.

Text symbol

What 𘬾 means

𘬾 is the khitan small script character-18b3e. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Khitan Small Script block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𘬾 is a single code point, U18B3E. In HTML that is 𘬾, and in CSS \18B3E.

Part of the collection

𘬣

Khitan Small Script

Who writes 𘬾

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Questions people ask

Why does 𘬾 show as a box on some devices?

It is recent: Unicode added it in version 13.0 (2020), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.