What 𘲯 means
It was one part of Khitan spelling. Yelü Diela is credited with creating the script; its reported inspiration was Uyghur writing, though the scripts share few visible forms. As of 2025, the earliest known Small Script inscription is a tomb epitaph for Yelü Yugulin Taishi, dated to the Chongxi reign period (1032–1055). Jurchen rulers kept using it after Liao rule ended; the Jin prohibited Khitan writing in 1191.
Many surviving examples are stone funeral inscriptions buried in Khitan nobles’ tombs. Sound signs join to spell words; historical texts arranged clusters in vertical columns read top to bottom and right to left. A linear font can show one glyph without laying out its word cluster.
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Who writes 𘲯
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Questions people ask
1What does the 2 in ju2 mean?
It belongs to one scholarly sound reconstruction written in Latin letters; another table gives “ju.” The 2 is part of the reading, not a mark beside the glyph.
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How to type or find 𘲯
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- khitan · khitan script · qidan · 契丹小字 · khitan ju
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘲯\18CAFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.