U+1B02C "𛀬" Hentaigana Letter Ku-2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀬
U+1B02C "𛀬" Hentaigana Letter Ku-2 is a historic variant form of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "ku" (く), used in the Japanese writing system until standardized orthography was established in the early 20th century. This particular glyph belongs to the Hentaigana collection, a set of cursive, stylized letterforms that were commonly employed in premodern Japanese texts and calligraphy, often to convey elegance or nuance. The character is encoded in the Unicode standard's Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically within the Hentaigana block, to preserve the typographic diversity of historical Japanese documents for digital representation and study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B02C |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ku-2 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B02C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc2c |