Khitan Small Script Character 18C91

This character belongs to Khitan small script, made to write Khitan. Most words combine signs for sounds into clusters; some signs stand for words. Tradition credits Yelü Diela with the script around 925; the earliest securely dated surviving text is from 1051. Its forms drew on Chinese characters; the sound system reportedly drew on Uyghur writing. Khitan writing later influenced Jurchen script; official Khitan use ended in 1191.

Text symbol

What 𘲑 means

𘲑 is the khitan small script character-18c91. 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

𘲑 is a single code point, U18C91. In HTML that is 𘲑, and in CSS \18C91.

Part of the collection

𘬣

Khitan Small Script

Who writes 𘲑

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Questions people ask

Why does 𘲑 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.