Khitan Small Script character 18CCB

This sign belongs to Khitan Small Script, used to write the Khitan language under the Liao empire, a Khitan-ruled state; Unicode’s name gives no reading for the sign. Chinese character forms and Uyghur script, a writing system, shaped it. A 2026 study questions the traditional 924–925 creation date and identifies a 1051 tomb inscription as the earliest securely dated surviving small-script example; neighboring Jurchen rulers later modeled their scripts on it.