U+1B035 "𛀵" Hentaigana Letter Ke-4 Unicode Character

U+1B035 "𛀵" Hentaigana Letter Ke-4 is a specific variant form of the Japanese hiragana character "け" (ke), belonging to the historical Hentaigana set used in classical Japanese writing before the standardization of the modern kana syllabary in 1900. This character, encoded in the Kana Extended-A block, represents one of the many alternative, cursive calligraphic shapes derived from man'yōgana, the system of Chinese characters used to phonetically write Japanese. Hentaigana such as this one primarily appear in pre-modern texts, historical documents, and artistic calligraphy, and their inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent these culturally significant script variations for scholars and enthusiasts of Japanese linguistic history.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1B035
Version Added	10.0
Name	Hentaigana Letter Ke-4
Block	Kana Supplement
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𛀵
HTML Hex Encoding	𛀵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD82C 0xDC35
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001B035
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud82c\udc35

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