U+1B01C "𛀜" Hentaigana Letter Ka-6 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀜
U+1B01C "𛀜" Hentaigana Letter Ka-6 is a specific variant of the historic Japanese cursive syllabary known as hentaigana, which was used before the modern standardized hiragana system was established. This character represents the syllable "ka" and is one of several hentaigana forms that were commonly employed in pre-20th century Japanese writing, particularly in literary works and informal documents. Although rarely used today, it is preserved in Unicode to support historical text digitization and scholarly research. Its glyph shape is derived from a stylized, cursive abbreviation of the Chinese character åŠ , which was originally adopted for its phonetic value.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B01C |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ka-6 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B01C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc1c |