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𘱉

khitan small script character-18c49

Khitan Small Script Character 18C49

This character belongs to Khitan Small Script, used to write Khitan; its code-based Unicode name is not a reading. Tradition credits Yelü Diela with creating the script around 925, but the earliest securely dated surviving text is a 1051 tomb inscription, and a 2026 study argues it spread later. Khitan writing drew on Chinese forms and later influenced Jurchen; the proposed Uyghur link has few visual parallels. Surviving texts include tomb inscriptions.

Text symbol

Search it as: kitan · qidan
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𘱉 means

Its role has to be identified from the surrounding inscription.

Khitan Small Script used signs for whole words and signs for sounds. Sound signs usually grouped to spell words; whole-word signs often stood alone. The codepoint name labels this character by number, not by its role or Khitan reading.

Questions people ask

Why does 𘱉 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 𘱉

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 18C49, then Alt+X to get 𘱉.

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-18c49”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 18c49, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𘱉

CSS

\18C49

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𘱉

HTML hex

𘱉

CSS content

content: "\18C49";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%98%B1%89

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

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

Families this belongs to

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

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