Khitan Scripts

General Pages

Documents relating to the encoding of the Tangut, Jurchen and Khitan scripts
Daily calendar for the Liao, Jin and Song dynasties (907–1279) : LiaoJinCalendar_xlsx.zip or LiaoJinCalendar_txt.zip

Khitan Small Script

Source Mappings for Khitan Small Script in Unicode (based on N4725R Table 6) [pdf]
List of Khitan Small Script characters in Kane 2009
Today's Date in Khitan Small Script (Unicode)
Bronze Mirror (Unicode text)
Record of the Younger Brother of the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty 大金皇弟都統經略郎君行記 (Unicode text)

Khitan Large Script

Khitan Fonts

BabelStone Khitan Small Linear (Unicode mapped)
Khitan Small Script fonts (Unicode mapped)
Khitan Large Script fonts (PUA mapped)

Unicode Proposals and Other Documents

These are documents relating to the encoding of Khitan large and small scripts in the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards that were authored or co-authored by myself. For all documents related to Khitan encoding submitted by all parties see WG2 Documents relating to Small Khitan and Small Jurchen and WG2 Documents relating to Large Khitan.

WG2 N4559: Preliminary Review of Proposal on Encoding Khitan Large Script in UCS (N4631) (Andrew West, Viacheslav Zaytsev) [2014-10-14]
WG2 N4725: Towards an Encoding of the Khitan Small Script (Andrew West, Viacheslav Zaytsev, Michael Everson) [2016-04-21]
WG2 N4725R: Towards an Encoding of the Khitan Small Script (Andrew West, Viacheslav Zaytsev, Michael Everson) [2016-05-21]
WG2 N4738: Final proposal to encode the Khitan Small Script in the SMP of the UCS (Wu Yingzhe, Sun Bojun, Jing Yongshi, Viacheslav Zaytsev, Andrew West, and Michael Everson) [2016-09-13]
WG2 N4738R2: Final proposal to encode the Khitan Small Script in the SMP of the UCS (Sun Bojun, Wu Yingzhe, Jing Yongshi, Jiruhe, Viacheslav Zaytsev, Andrew West, and Michael Everson) [2016-09-17]
WG2 N4765: Discussion of 29 proposed Khitan Small Script characters (Viacheslav Zaytsev and Andrew West) [2016-09-24]
WG2 N4775: Discussion of Cluster Formation in Khitan Small Script (Andrew West, Michael Everson, Viacheslav Zaytsev) [2016-10-27]
WG2 N4795: Towards an encoding of the Jurchen script and implications for Khitan Small Script (Andrew West, Michael Everson, Viacheslav Zaytsev) [2017-05-03]
WG2 N4943: Cluster Formation Model for Khitan Small Script (Andrew West, Viacheslav Zaytsev, Michael Everson) [2018-05-19]
WG2 N5205: Proposal to encode a blank character for Khitan Small Script (Andrew West) [2023-03-01]
L2/23-199: Glyph correction for Khitan Small Script U+18BD2 (Andrew West) [2023-07-29]

BabelStone Blog Posts

The following posts in my BabelStone blog relate to the Khtan small and/or large scripts :

The Mystery of Two Khitan Scripts [2010-12-26]
A Mirror on the Khitan Language [2011-07-11]
Oh, How the Gods Mock Us! [2011-10-22]
Khitan Seals [2012-10-16]
One to Twenty in Jurchen, Khitan and Lute [2012-12-18]
Fake Khitania [2013-01-01]
Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut [2013-03-24]
Khitan Geography Part 1 [2013-05-01]
Khitan Geography Part 2 [2013-05-11]
A Chronology of Khitan Inscriptions [2014-01-01]
Accounts of Khitan Life and Language [2014-05-05]
Khitan Fragment from the Liao Mausoleum at Yiwulü Mountain [2018-11-29]
Khitan Fragments from the Tomb of Yelü Pugu [2018-12-08]

Diary of a Rambling Antiquarian

The following posts in my BabelStone Diary relate to Liao dynasty sites and artefacts :

Lindong North Pagoda [1 October 2017]
Liao Superior Capital Revisited [1 October 2017]
Qingzhou White Pagoda and Qingling Mausoleum [30 September 2017]
Hohhot White Pagoda [22 September 2017]
Hohhot Revisited [21 September 2017]
Haotian Pagoda [18 September 2017]
Lindong South Pagoda [28 August 2016]
Liao Superior Capital and Pagodas [27 August 2016]
Hohhot Interlude [26 August 2016]
Three Beijing Pagodas : Tianning Temple [12 December 2013]
Liao and Jin City Wall Museum [5 August 2011]

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