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𘰸

khitan small script character-18c38

Khitan Small Script Character 18C38

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𘰸 is a Khitan Small Script character; its chart name is not a reading. Historical accounts credit Yelü Diela with creating it around 925 to write Khitan, reportedly inspired by Uyghur writing; its earliest securely dated surviving text is a 1051 epitaph. Liao-era Khitan paired it with the Large Script; sound signs formed word clusters, with many readings still unknown in Unicode 18.0. Jin-era Jurchen writing adapted Khitan models.

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What 𘰸 means

𘰸 is the khitan small script character-18c38. 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

𘰸 is a single code point, U18C38. In HTML that is 𘰸, and in CSS \18C38.

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Who writes 𘰸

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𘰸 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.

How to type or find 𘰸

Search it as
khitan inscription · khitan writing · khitan text · khitan glyph · khitan letter
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 18C38, then AltX to get 𘰸.
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-18c38”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 18c38, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𘰸
CSS
\18C38
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𘰸
HTML hex
𘰸
CSS content
content: "\18C38";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%98%B0%B8
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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