U+1B01F "๐" Hentaigana Letter Ka-9 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B01F "๐" Hentaigana Letter Ka-9 is a specific variant of the historical Japanese hentaigana (ๅคไฝไปฎๅ) script, representing the syllable "ka" derived from a cursive abbreviation of the kanji ๅ. This character belongs to the Kana Extended-A block and serves as a non standard cursive alternative to the modern hiragana ใ (ka), used primarily in pre modern Japanese texts and calligraphy before the standardization of the kana syllabary in the early 20th century. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of historical documents and specialized linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B01F |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ka-9 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC1F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B01F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc1f |