U+1B028 "𛀨" Hentaigana Letter Ki-6 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀨
U+1B028 "𛀨" Hentaigana Letter Ki-6 is a specific historical variant form (hentaigana) of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "ki," representing one of the many alternate, cursive shapes used in pre-modern Japanese writing before the standardization of modern hiragana in the early 20th century. This character belongs to the Unicode block for Kana Extended-A, which was designed to encode these archaic glyphs for scholarly use in historical text analysis and digital preservation of classical Japanese literature. Its distinctive appearance, featuring a more flowing and ornamental stroke structure compared to the standard "き," reflects the calligraphic diversity of the Edo and Meiji periods.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B028 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ki-6 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B028 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc28 |