What 𘳀 means
To record the Khitan language.
Yelü Diela is credited with creating the script around 925 CE to record Khitan, a language spoken in northern China. Tradition links its design to Uyghur writing, though the scripts look quite different.
The Small Script worked alongside the distinct Khitan Large Script; both served the same region, period, and functions. Most surviving examples are funerary epitaphs—inscriptions on stone memorials for the dead. It also appears on monuments and objects. A 1091 inscription uses 𘳀 for day thirty.
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Who writes 𘳀
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𘳀 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𘳀
- Search it as
- 30 · thirty · khitan · numeral
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𘳀\18CC0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.