U+1B025 "𛀥" Hentaigana Letter Ki-3 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛀥

U+1B025 "𛀥" Hentaigana Letter Ki-3 is a historical Japanese character known as a hentaigana, a variant form of the hiragana syllable "ki" used before orthographic standardization in the early 20th century. This specific glyph represents one of many alternative cursive shapes derived from the Chinese character 貴, and it was commonly employed in pre modern Japanese texts, calligraphy, and personal correspondence to add stylistic variety or reflect regional writing traditions. The character is encoded in Unicode's Hentaigana block, which was introduced to preserve these obsolete yet culturally significant script forms for scholarly, linguistic, and digital heritage purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B025
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Ki-3
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛀥
HTML Hex Encoding 𛀥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC25
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B025
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc25

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