List of Khitan Small Characters in Kane 2009

The table below is a transcription of the Index of Graphs given on pages 301–305 of Daniel
Kane's The Kitan Language and Script (Brill, 2009) [images of pages 300–301, 302–303, and 304–305]. This
page is a mirror of this page, but uses WOFF fonts instead of glyph images.

Notes

 The glyphs are from an experimental font created by myself, and try to follow the basic shape
of the glyphs given in Kane's book, but due to the constraints of the font's inherent style they
may differ to a greater of lesser extent. The exact glyph form is open for debate in many cases.
The font used to generate the glyph images used on this page is available for download
from here.
 In the third column, italic text represents a phonetic reconstruction, and monospaced capital
text indicates the character's meaning.
 You are advised to install the Charis SIL font if you want to be sure of having the phonetic
reconstructions display correctly.
 Some logographic characters occur in dotted and non-dotted forms, which Kane considers to
be masculine and feminine/neuter forms respectively. In these cases the definition of the
masculine (dotted) character is marked with a male sign (♂).
 A question mark above a vowel (e.g. ẻ) indicates that the reconstructed vowel is uncertain (the
"question mark" is actually U+0309 Combining Hook Above).
 The table lists all distinct glyph forms that occur in Small Khitan inscriptions, but it does not
directly distinguish between logographic characters that occur in isolation and phonetic
elements that combine in blocks of two seven characters to represent the pronunciation of a
word.
 Many of the characters in the table are glyph variants of other characters in the table, and
would probably be unified in a Unicode encoding of the Small Khitan script

Index of Graphs
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

001 ABOVE, NORTH

No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

002 TWENTY

003 tś

004 WHITE

005 WHITE♂

006 MOUNTAIN/TOMB

007 EIGHT

008 EIGHT♂

009

010

011 an

012

013
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

014 hur

015 HUNDRED ‹jau›

016 od

017 sỏ

018 in

019 iu

020 ei

021 mó

022 cau

023 iủ

024 ẻr

025 xỉ
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

026 ONE

027 ONE♂

028 ś

029 FIVE

030 FIVE♂

031 ts This character is a misinterpretation of the

character normally written as .

032 tẻn

033 NINE

034 NINE♂

035

036 xu

037 di
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

038

039 kải

040 WEST

041 kả

042

043

044

045

046

047 hor

048 nẻn

049
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

050 lỉ

051 ha

052 RECORD

053 qa

054 mủ

055

056

057 xo

058 mỉ

059 uni

060 kẻ

061 kẻ
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

062 iáŋ

063 121

064 lu

065

066 tủ

067 eu

068 us

069 rí

070 w

071 oŋ

072 deu

073 ên
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

074 tir

075 hoŋ

076 ho

077

078

079

080 ii

081 MONTH

082 y

083 ss

084 ra

085 SIX
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

086 SIX♂ This character is usually written with the

dot below the horizontal stroke, as .

087 tz

088

089 zủ

090 ó

091

092 yủ

093 gẻ

094

095

096

097 úr
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

098 al

099 ad

100 én

101 deu

102 cu

103 us

104 tź

105 ud

106 uŋ

107 oi

108

109 e
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

110

111

112 ge

113 ï

114 i Kane p. 302 mistakenly gives the same

glyph as #339 . The glyph for #114

given here is based on the glyph form given

on Kane p. 48.

115 dả

116

117

118 qú

119 dau

120
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

121

122 ai

123 ar

124

125 ió

126

127 an

128 zải

129

130 xa

131 ú

132
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

133 m

134 TWO

135 TWO♂

136 dỏ

137 rẻn

138 iû

139 na

140 en

141 7

142 KNOW

143 xua

144 ún
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

145 FORTY

146 giủ

147 ju

148 ju

149 ju

150 ja

151 hu

152 ji

153 ji

154 on

155 FIFTY

156
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

157

158

159 DAY

160 giỏ

161 au

162 c

163 ki

164 au

165 gu

166 THREE

167 THREE♂

168 qo
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

169 qó

170 bải

171 da

172 uh

173

174 as

175 êŋ

176 bú

177 rả

178 ku

179 úd

180 sh
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

181 iúŋ

182 This character is a misinterpretation of the

character normally written as .

183 car

184 am

185 ảm

186 o This character is a misinterpretation of the

character normally written as .

187 TEN THOUSAND

188 zỏ

189 a

190 à

191 mú
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

192 śï

193

194

195 ủ

196 bu

197 ae

198

199 aŋ

200

201

202 tu

203
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

204

205 de

206 lí

207 THOUSAND

208 lu

209

210 aú

211 THIRTY

212

213 to

214 da

215 da
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

216

217 do

218 doro

219

220 mú

221

222 ń

223

224 mu

225 bi

226 ü

227
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

228 lỏ

229 ta

230 ̉
jin

231

232

233 kú

234 rẻŋ

235 ri

236 ur

237 du

238 BORN

239 bả
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

240 TEN

241 pu

242 fu

243 HEAVEN

244 s

245 û

246 qu

247 t

248 YOUNG

249 dû

250 heu

251 n
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

252 ô

253 ô

254 d

255 or

256

257 em

258 z

259 hur

260 dur

261 l

262 ui

263 ui
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

264 ŋ

265

266 SIXTY

267

268 xỉ

269
= ?

270 êm

271

272 bú

273 un

274 iá

275
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

276

277

278

279 po

280 áŋ

281

282 fẻi

283 k

284

285 GOLD

286 GOLD♂

287
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

288 bun

289 iú

290 án

291

292

293

294 siỏ

295 p

296

297 pú

298 co

299
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

300 EIGHTY

301

302 il

303 iŋ

304 gỏ

305 rỏ

306

307

308 COMPOSE

309 hó

310

311 b
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

312 TEN THOUSAND

313

314 iaŋ

315 iảŋ

316

317 TEXT

318

319 go

320 yỏ

321 yô

322 ón

323 qi
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

324 üan

325 dẻn

326

327 ie

328 oŋ

329 ün

330 ź

331 neu

332 nai

333 qatủn

334 g

335 ia
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

336

337 j

338 i’i

339 i

340 x

341 er

342

343

344 ud

345 uŋ

346

347 oi
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

348 e

349 ge

350

351

352 î

353 ï

354 dź

355 ordu

356 cẻn

357 úŋ

358 mû

359
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

360 poŋ

361 én

362 iau

363

364

365 qid

366 ul

367 źuŋ

368 FOUR

369 FOUR♂

370

371 REGION
No. Glyph Definition or Notes
Reconstructed
Phonetic Value

372 û

373 GREAT

374 tai

375 ca

376

377 oh

378 REPEAT

379 TENT Given as #379 on Kane p. 81, but

mistakenly listed as #380 on p. 305. This

character is normally written as .

380 qudug Given as #380 on Kane p. 81, but

mistakenly listed as #379 on p. 305.

Acknowledgments