U+1B022 "𛀢" Hentaigana Letter Ka-Ke Unicode Character

U+1B022 "𛀢" Hentaigana Letter Ka-Ke is a historical variant hentaigana glyph representing both the Japanese syllabic sounds "ka" and "ke" depending on context, belonging to the collection of alternative, non-standard kana characters that were widely used in classical Japanese writing before the Meiji era standardized the modern hiragana set. This specific character originates from the cursive, simplified style of writing the man'yōgana kanji characters, reflecting the calligraphic and phonetic evolution of Japanese script. It is part of the Hentaigana and Kana Supplement Unicode block, which preserves these pre-modern forms for scholarly, historical, and typographic purposes, allowing digital representation of traditional Japanese documents and manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1B022
Version Added	10.0
Name	Hentaigana Letter Ka-Ke
Block	Kana Supplement
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𛀢
HTML Hex Encoding	𛀢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD82C 0xDC22
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001B022
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud82c\udc22

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Hiragana
Script Extensions	Hiragana
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter