U+1B012 "𛀒" Hentaigana Letter E-5 Unicode Character

U+1B012 "𛀒" Hentaigana Letter E-5 is a historical Japanese phonetic symbol representing the syllable "e," specifically belonging to the set of hentaigana, which are the variant, non-standard cursive forms of the hiragana syllabary used before the modern orthographic standardization in 1900. This particular glyph is one of several historical variants for the sound "e," derived from a cursive simplification of the Chinese character 衣, and it was encoded in Unicode to support the digital preservation and study of classical Japanese texts, calligraphy, and pre-modern manuscripts where these alternate characters frequently appear. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows scholars, linguists, and enthusiasts to accurately render and analyze historical documents without needing to substitute modern standard characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1B012
Version Added	10.0
Name	Hentaigana Letter E-5
Block	Kana Supplement
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𛀒
HTML Hex Encoding	𛀒
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD82C 0xDC12
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001B012
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud82c\udc12

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Hiragana
Script Extensions	Hiragana
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter