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 |