What 𘲿 means
One scholarly reconstruction gives it the Romanized sound value “pen.”
Khitan Small Script was developed around 925 by Yelü Diela to write the Khitan language. Its forms drew on Chinese characters; a traditional account links its sound-based design to the Uyghur script, an alphabet used farther west. Most surviving texts are stone funerary inscriptions for Khitan royalty and aristocrats.
A 2019 study identifies 1053 as the earliest known dated text and 1175 as the latest example it lists. It also revises an earlier “fen” reading to “pen.” Jin rulers abolished official use of Khitan scripts in 1191; Jurchen scripts also took Khitan models.
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1Why does Khitan character 18CBF show as a box?
A box means the browser or app’s selected font may not support Khitan Small Script. As of 2026, Noto Khitan Small Script and BabelStone Khitan Small Linear provide font options for displaying it.
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𘲿\18CBF𘲿; the browser renders that numeric character reference as this glyph.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.