Khitan Small Script character

𘭛 is a character in the Khitan Small Script, used to write Khitan. Traditional accounts date its creation to the 10th century; a 2026 study argues it was systematized under Emperor Shengzong and identifies 1051 as the earliest securely dated inscription. It drew on Chinese forms and served official and memorial writing across the Liao and Jin eras, influencing Jurchen writing; as of 2026, the script remains partly deciphered.

Text symbol

What 𘭛 means

𘭛 is the khitan small script character-18b5b. 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

𘭛 is a single code point, U18B5B. In HTML that is 𘭛, and in CSS \18B5B.

Part of the collection

𘬣

Khitan Small Script

Who writes 𘭛

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Questions people ask

Why does 𘭛 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.