Khitan Small Script Character 18C8C

𘲌 is a Khitan Small Script sign for writing the Khitan language; its stand-alone reading remains unsettled as of 2026. It appears in 𘲌𘮒𘲫, a word glossed “middle.” The script drew on Chinese character structure; Jurchen writing also adapted it. Traditional accounts date its creation to 924 or 925; a 2026 study argues widespread use came later, pointing to a 1051 tomb inscription as the oldest securely dated surviving text.

Text symbol

What 𘲌 means

𘲌 is the khitan small script character-18c8c. 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

𘲌 is a single code point, U18C8C. In HTML that is 𘲌, and in CSS \18C8C.

Part of the collection

𘬣

Khitan Small Script

Who writes 𘲌

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Questions people ask

Why does 𘲌 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.