U+1B03A "𛀺" Hentaigana Letter Ko-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛀺
U+1B03A "𛀺" Hentaigana Letter Ko-3 is one of the historic variant forms of the kana character for the syllable "ko" that was used in pre-modern Japanese writing. Known as hentaigana, these alternative glyphs emerged from the cursive stylization of Chinese characters during the Heian period, and this particular shape derives from a specific simplified rendering of the kanji 古. While standard hiragana now uniformly represents "ko" as こ, U+1B03A preserves a unique calligraphic tradition found in classical texts and manuscripts, and its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of historical documents and typographic art.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B03A |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ko-3 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛀺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛀺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC3A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B03A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc3a |