What 𘯌 means
The codepoint name identifies the sign, not its historical reading.
Khitan small script uses whole-word signs and sound signs; a sign’s role comes from its place in a cluster or inscription.
How do Khitan word clusters work?
Sound signs form word-sized blocks.
Read signs left-to-right, then top-to-bottom. Alternate block shapes are stylistic, not different readings; historical columns run top-to-bottom and right-to-left.
Texts survive chiefly in elite tomb epitaphs. After Liao fell, Khitan writing continued under Jin rule; the Jurchen people adapted its models for their own script.
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Who writes 𘯌
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘯌 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.
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How to type or find 𘯌
- Search it as
- 18bcc · khitan glyph · 契丹小字
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘯌\18BCCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.