Khitan Small Script Character 18B80

𘮀 is a character in Khitan Small Script, used to write the Khitan language; references give two labels, dả and “some.” Tradition credits Yelü Diela with devising it around 925; Chinese characters shaped its forms, and Uyghur writing reportedly shaped its sound system. Junyoung Kang’s 2026 study argues standardization came later and identifies a 1051 tomb inscription as the earliest securely dated text. 12th-century Jurchen scripts drew on Khitan models.

Text symbol

What 𘮀 means

𘮀 is the khitan small script character-18b80. 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

𘮀 is a single code point, U18B80. In HTML that is 𘮀, and in CSS \18B80.

Part of the collection

𘬣

Khitan Small Script

Who writes 𘮀

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Questions people ask

Why does 𘮀 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.