What 𘰣 means
It represents the reconstructed Khitan syllable ri.
Reading tables reconstruct its value as ri. Sound signs usually form compact word clusters, so this sign supplies one syllable rather than a whole word.
Made to write Khitan, Small Script stood beside the more character-like Large Script. Both drew on Chinese forms; Small Script was reportedly inspired by Old Uyghur writing from Inner Asia. Tradition credits Yelü Diela, brother of Liao founder Abaoji, with its creation around 925. A 2026 study argues it was standardized later, citing a Khitan letter unread at the Korean court of Goryeo in 1011 and the earliest securely dated surviving text, the 1051 tomb inscription of Wugulin Taishi.
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Worth knowing
- BabelStone Khitan Small Linear v16.000 (2024-08-28) displays individual signs horizontally without composing word clusters; historical Small Script placed word clusters in vertical columns.
Questions people ask
1Why does 𘰣 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.
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- ri · kitan · qidan
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘰣\18C23Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.