Khitan Small Script Character 18C0A

𘰊 is a Khitan Small Script sound sign transcribed as tu. It contributes one syllable to a word, so read the surrounding signs before translating it. Created around 925, Small Script is credited to Liao prince Yelü Diela as one of two systems for writing Khitan.

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What 𘰊 means

It is transcribed as the sound tu.

Here, tu is a scholarly transcription of sound, not an English gloss. Phonograms (sound signs) joined in clusters to spell Khitan words, so a translation needs neighboring signs.

The script's forms drew on Chinese characters; Uyghur script, used by a Turkic-speaking people, influenced its sound system. The script appeared in tomb inscriptions, on monuments, and in diplomacy, records and literature. The Jurchen, another North Asian people, later adapted Khitan writing for their own scripts; a Jin decree ended its official use in 1191.

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𘬣

Khitan Small Script

Who writes 𘰊

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

A sound sign transcribed tu; read its neighbors for the word sense.

Questions people ask

Why does 𘰊 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.