Khitan large script

<p>The Khitan large script (<a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">Chinese</a>: 契丹大字; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: <i>qìdān dàzì</i>) was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct <a href="/facts/Khitan_language/eBwG7ut5">Khitan language</a> (the other was the <a href="/facts/Khitan_small_script/ImHWzhKv">Khitan small script</a>). It was used during the 10th–12th centuries by the <a href="/facts/Khitan_people/LzWy3mB3">Khitan people</a>, who had created the <a href="/facts/Liao_Empire/aLMKfWr7">Liao Empire</a> in north-eastern China. In addition to the large script, the Khitans simultaneously also used a functionally independent writing system known as the <a href="/facts/Khitan_small_script/ImHWzhKv">Khitan small script</a>. Both Khitan scripts continued to be in use to some extent by the <a href="/facts/Jurchens/mhV1xEAe">Jurchens</a> for several decades after the fall of the Liao dynasty, until the Jurchens fully switched to a <a href="/facts/Jurchen_script/s1DBSBtK">script of their own</a>. Examples of the scripts appeared most often on <a href="/facts/Epitaph/jQ5jpQ3f">epitaphs</a> and <a href="/facts/Monuments/p4Gs7ABC">monuments</a>, although other fragments sometimes surface.
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Khitan large script open-in-new

Khitan large script