U+1B026 "𛀦" Hentaigana Letter Ki-4 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀦
U+1B026 "𛀦" Hentaigana Letter Ki-4 is a specific variant of the historical Japanese cursive syllabary known as hentaigana, which were alternative forms of the modern hiragana characters used before the standardization of Japanese writing in the early 20th century. This particular glyph represents the syllable "ki" and is one of several distinct historical shapes for that sound, preserved in the Unicode standard to support scholarly work, historical text reproduction, and digital typography related to classical Japanese documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B026 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ki-4 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B026 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc26 |