U+1B01B "𛀛" Hentaigana Letter Ka-5 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀛
U+1B01B "𛀛" Hentaigana Letter Ka-5 is a variant of the Japanese hiragana character "か" (ka), specifically a hentaigana, or an obsolete, historically used cursive form of the kana syllabary. This character belongs to the Kana Extended-A block and was encoded in Unicode to support the reproduction of classical Japanese texts, where multiple stylized or alternative shapes for the same syllable were common before the standardization of modern hiragana. Hentaigana Letter Ka-5 represents one of several distinct graphic variants for the sound "ka," preserving the calligraphic diversity of premodern Japanese writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B01B |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ka-5 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B01B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc1b |