U+1B024 "𛀤" Hentaigana Letter Ki-2 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛀤

U+1B024 "𛀤" Hentaigana Letter Ki-2 is a variant form of the hiragana character for the syllable "ki" used in the historical Japanese writing system known as hentaigana or variant kana. Hentaigana were commonly employed before the standardization of hiragana in the early 20th century, and this specific character represents one of several stylistically different ways the sound "ki" could be written in classical Japanese texts. The "Ki-2" notation in its name indicates that it is the second registered variant for this syllable in the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B024
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Ki-2
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛀤
HTML Hex Encoding 𛀤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC24
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B024
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc24

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