U+1B021 "𛀡" Hentaigana Letter Ka-11 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀡
U+1B021 "𛀡" Hentaigana Letter Ka-11 is a historic variant of the modern Japanese hiragana character "か" (ka), which was used in pre-modern Japanese writing before the standardization of the kana syllabary in the early 20th century. This specific glyph belongs to the Hentaigana block, a collection of cursive forms that once coexisted with standard hiragana, and it is encoded for use in digital typography and scholarly texts to accurately represent old manuscripts and calligraphic works. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of Japan by allowing precise reproduction of historical documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B021 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ka-11 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B021 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc21 |