Khitan Small Script Character 18C4D

Its code-based name is an index, not a Khitan reading.

Khitan Small Script used logograms (signs for whole words) and phonograms (signs for sounds). A logogram could stand alone, while phonograms usually joined in clusters that spelled words. Without the surrounding inscription, this glyph’s role and reading can’t be assumed from its character name.

How was Khitan Small Script laid out?

It was written in vertical columns read from right to left.

Inside sound-sign clusters, characters were ordered left to right, then top to bottom. Unicode also supports horizontal displays that keep clusters together or show characters one by one, so a straight horizontal sample may not reflect the historical page layout.