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𘭀

khitan small script character-18b40

Khitan Small Script Character 18B40

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𘭀 is a Khitan character in Khitan Small Script, which wrote Khitan; the script remains partly deciphered as of 2026. Tradition credits Yelü Diela with creating it around 925; a 2026 study argues the script was established later, and its earliest secure text is a 1051 tomb inscription. It drew on Chinese forms and Uyghur writing, persisted under Jin until 1191, influencing Jurchen scripts. Unicode gives an ID, not a translation.

Text symbol

What 𘭀 means

Not necessarily; the script also spells words by sound.

The Khitan writing system uses logograms, signs that stand for whole words, and phonograms, signs that represent sounds.

Phonograms usually join into clusters to spell a word. A single character can therefore stand for a whole word or form only part of its spelling.

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Who writes 𘭀

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𘭀 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 𘭀

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khitan character · khitan writing · khitan small script
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 18B40, then AltX to get 𘭀.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “khitan small script character-18b40”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 18b40, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𘭀
CSS
\18B40
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𘭀
HTML hex
𘭀
CSS content
content: "\18B40";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%98%AD%80
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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