Khitan Small Script Character 18C83

This character is from Khitan small script, which writes the Khitan language; some English sources spell Khitan as Kitan or Qidan. A 2026 study questions the traditional date of around 925, arguing for later systematization; its oldest securely dated sample is a 1051 grave inscription. Used under Liao, Qara Khitai, and Jin, it influenced writing for Jurchen, another northern language. Its Unicode name is an ID, not a reading.

Text symbol

What 𘲃 means

𘲃 is the khitan small script character-18c83. 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

𘲃 is a single code point, U18C83. In HTML that is 𘲃, and in CSS \18C83.

Part of the collection

𘬣

Khitan Small Script

Who writes 𘲃

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Questions people ask

Why does 𘲃 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.