U+1B005 "𛀅" Hentaigana Letter A-Wo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀅
U+1B005 "𛀅" Hentaigana Letter A-Wo is a historical variant form, or hentaigana, of the Japanese kana used to represent the syllable "a" and historically also "wo," as indicated by its name. It belongs to the Kana Supplement block, which encodes these alternative, non-standard cursive shapes that were commonly employed in pre-modern Japanese writing before the Meiji-era standardization of hiragana. This specific glyph originates from a stylized, simplified rendering of a Chinese character, likely derived from the man'yogana system, and it serves as a vestige of Japan's orthographic evolution, now primarily of interest to scholars, calligraphers, and digital preservationists working with historical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B005 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter A-Wo |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC05 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B005 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc05 |