U+1B00E "𛀎" Hentaigana Letter U-5 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀎
U+1B00E "𛀎" Hentaigana Letter U-5 is a historic variant of the modern Japanese hiragana letter "う" (u), belonging to the set of hentaigana characters used in pre-modern Japanese writing, particularly in the Edo period. This specific form represents an alternative, stylized cursive abbreviation derived from the Chinese character 宇, which was historically employed for its phonetic value in documents, calligraphy, and printed texts before the standardization of hiragana in 1900. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard within the Kana Extended-B block helps preserve and digitally encode these historical script forms, supporting scholarly research and specialized typographic needs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B00E |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter U-5 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC0E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B00E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc0e |