Khitan Small Script Sign

𘱸 is a Khitan participial suffix.

A 2010 proposal transcribes it as én. This ending can make a verb describe something or act like a noun; that form is a participle. The earliest dated Khitan Small Script text is Yelü Zongjiao’s 1053 tomb inscription. There, 𘱸 follows the Khitan verb for “record” in a phrase translated “recorded text in the tomb.”

The Small Script mixed sound signs, often grouped in word blocks, with whole-word signs. Yelü Diela is credited with creating it after the Large Script was established in 920, drawing on Uyghur writing. The Liao used it on monuments, in poems, translations and official correspondence. After the Liao fell in 1125, Jurchen rulers kept Khitan writing in use and later adapted its model to create their own scripts.