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).

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.
• 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

Number	Glyph	Definition or Reconstructed Phonetic Value
001		ABOVE, NORTH
002		TWENTY
003		tś
004		WHITE
005		WHITE♂
006		MOUNTAIN/TOMB
007		EIGHT
008		EIGHT♂
009
010
011		an
012
013
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
026		ONE
027		ONE♂
028		ś
029		FIVE
030		FIVE♂
031		ts
032		tẻn
033		NINE
034		NINE♂
035
036		xu
037		di
038
039		kải
040		WEST
041		kả
042
043
044
045
046
047		hor
048		nẻn
049
050		lỉ
051		ha
052		RECORD
053		qa
054		mủ
055
056
057		xo
058		mỉ
059		uni
060		kẻ
061		kẻ
062		iáŋ
063		121
064		lu
065
066		tủ
067		eu
068		us
069		rí
070		w
071		oŋ
072		deu
073		ên
074		tir
075		hoŋ
076		ho
077
078
079
080		ii
081		MONTH
082		y
083		ss
084		ra
085		SIX
086		SIX♂
087		tz
088
089		zủ
090		ó
091
092		yủ
093		gẻ
094
095
096
097		úr
098		al
099		ad
100		én
101		deu
102		cu
103		us
104		tź
105		ud
106		uŋ
107		oi
108
109		e
110
111
112		ge
113		ï
114		i
115		dả
116
117
118		qú
119		dau
120
121
122		ai
123		ar
124
125		ió
126
127		an
128		zải
129
130		xa
131		ú
132
133		m
134		TWO
135		TWO♂
136		dỏ
137		rẻn
138		iû
139		na
140		en
141		7
142		KNOW
143		xua
144		ún
145		FORTY
146		giủ
147		ju
148		ju
149		ju
150		ja
151		hu
152		ji
153		ji
154		on
155		FIFTY
156
157
158
159		DAY
160		giỏ
161		au
162		c
163		ki
164		au
165		gu
166		THREE
167		THREE♂
168		qo
169		qó
170		bải
171		da
172		uh
173
174		as
175		êŋ
176		bú
177		rả
178		ku
179		úd
180		sh
181		iúŋ
182
183		car
184		am
185		ảm
186		o
187		TEN THOUSAND
188		zỏ
189		a
190		à
191		mú
192		śï
193
194
195		ủ
196		bu
197		ae
198
199		aŋ
200
201
202		tu
203
204
205		de
206		lí
207		THOUSAND
208		lu
209
210		aú
211		THIRTY
212
213		to
214		da
215		da
216
217		do
218		doro
219
220		mú
221
222		ń
223
224		mu
225		bi
226		ü
227
228		lỏ
229		ta
230		jỉn
231
232
233		kú
234		rẻŋ
235		ri
236		ur
237		du
238		BORN
239		bả
240		TEN
241		pu
242		fu
243		HEAVEN
244		s
245		û
246		qu
247		t
248		YOUNG
249		dû
250		heu
251		n
252		ô
253		ô
254		d
255		or
256
257		em
258		z
259		hur
260		dur
261		l
262		ui
263		ui
264		ŋ
265
266		SIXTY
267
268		xỉ
269		=?
270		êm
271
272		bú
273		un
274		iá
275
276
277
278
279		po
280		áŋ
281
282		fẻi
283		k
284
285		GOLD
286		GOLD♂
287
288		bun
289		iú
290		án
291
292
293
294		siỏ
295		p
296
297		pú
298		co
299
300		EIGHTY
301
302		il
303		iŋ
304		gỏ
305		rỏ
306
307
308		COMPOSE
309		hó
310
311		b
312		TEN THOUSAND
313
314		iaŋ
315		iảŋ
316
317		TEXT
318
319		go
320		yỏ
321		yô
322		ón
323		qi
324		üan
325		dẻn
326
327		ie
328		oŋ
329		ün
330		ź
331		neu
332		nai
333		qatủn
334		g
335		ia
336
337		j
338		i’i
339		i
340		x
341		er
342
343
344		ud
345		uŋ
346
347		oi
348		e
349		ge
350
351
352		î
353		ï
354		dź
355		ordu
356		cẻn
357		úŋ
358		mû
359
360		poŋ
361		én
362		iau
363
364
365		qid
366		ul
367		źuŋ
368		FOUR
369		FOUR♂
370
371		REGION
372		û
373		GREAT
374		tai
375		ca
376
377		oh
378		REPEAT
379		qudug
380		TENT

Khitan Pages