U+1B016 "𛀖" Hentaigana Letter O-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀖
U+1B016 "𛀖" Hentaigana Letter O-3 is a specific glyph from the hentaigana set, which represents a historical variant of the modern hiragana character "を" (wo), historically used in Japanese writing before standardizing script reforms. This particular form, designated as O-3, is one of several alternate shapes for the sound "o" that appear in premodern texts, where multiple hentaigana forms existed for each phonetic syllable. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of classical Japanese documents, and it belongs to the Kana Supplement block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B016 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter O-3 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B016 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc16 |