U+1B02B "𛀫" Hentaigana Letter Ku-1 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛀫

U+1B02B "𛀫" Hentaigana Letter Ku-1 is a specific variant form of the Japanese hiragana character "く" (ku) belonging to the historic hentaigana script, which was widely used before the standardization of modern hiragana in the early 20th century. This particular glyph, encoded in Unicode's Kana Extended-A block, represents one of several alternative cursive styles that were once employed in classical Japanese texts, often appearing in calligraphic works, historical documents, or literary reproductions from the Edo and Meiji periods.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B02B
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Ku-1
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛀫
HTML Hex Encoding 𛀫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC2B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B02B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc2b

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