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𘰦

khitan small script character-18c26

Khitan Small Script Character-18C26

𘰦 is read as <i>du</i> in Khitan Small Script. Fonts can draw it differently or fail to show it.

Text symbol
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khitan · khitan small script · du
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𘰦 means

It represents the sound du, not a translated word. Specialists reconstruct this value. The script was made to write Khitan. Tradition dates its design to around 925 CE; one scholarly catalogue lists a tomb inscription from 1053 as the earliest known small-script monument.

Tradition links the design to the Uyghur writing system, though the scripts look little alike. The small script reused some signs from Khitan Large Script, the other Khitan system, as sound signs. These are links between writing systems, not proof this exact glyph came from another sign.

Fonts can draw the glyph differently: a linear Khitan font, version 16.000, uses a Chinese book-printing style called Song/Ming, not attested in surviving Khitan texts. Khitan writing can appear in vertical columns read right to left or horizontally. A box may mean your font lacks the glyph.

Questions people ask

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Why does 𘰦 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.

How to type 𘰦

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 18C26, then Alt+X to get 𘰦.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “khitan small script character-18c26”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 18c26, then Enter or Space.
HTML
&#x18C26;
CSS
\18C26
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
&#101414;
HTML hex
&#x18C26;
CSS content
content: "\18C26";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%98%B0%A6
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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