U+1B03F "𛀿" Hentaigana Letter Sa-4 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛀿

U+1B03F "𛀿" Hentaigana Letter Sa-4 is a historical variant of the hiragana character "さ" (sa), used in premodern Japanese writing as part of the hentaigana system before standardizing modern kana. This specific glyph represents the fourth of several known hentaigana forms for the syllable "sa" and derives from a cursive simplification of the Chinese character (kanji) 左, which historically contributed to early Japanese phonetic scripts. Though seldom used today, it appears in classical texts, calligraphy, and digital typography for accurate representation of historical manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B03F
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Sa-4
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛀿
HTML Hex Encoding 𛀿
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC3F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B03F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc3f

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