U+1B03C "𛀼" Hentaigana Letter Sa-1 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛀼

U+1B03C "𛀼" Hentaigana Letter Sa-1 is a historic variant form of the modern Japanese hiragana character "さ" (sa), part of the hentaigana set of alternative cursive kana that were widely used before the standardisation of the Japanese writing system in the early 20th century. This specific glyph was derived from the cursive style of the Chinese character "左" and represents one of several obsolete or alternate ways to write the syllable "sa" in classical and premodern Japanese texts. In modern contexts, this character is primarily of interest to scholars of historical Japanese calligraphy, paleography, and typography, as well as to enthusiasts of rare Unicode characters, as it is encoded in the Supplemental Multilingual Plane to preserve and enable digital representation of these traditional writing forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B03C
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Sa-1
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛀼
HTML Hex Encoding 𛀼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC3C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B03C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc3c

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