U+1B041 "𛁁" Hentaigana Letter Sa-6 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛁁

U+1B041 "𛁁" Hentaigana Letter Sa-6 is a historical variant form, or hentaigana, of the modern Japanese hiragana character "さ" (sa), specifically representing a stylized cursive simplification used in pre-modern Japanese writing before the script standardizations of the Meiji era. This glyph belongs to the "Kana Extended-A" block, which encodes over 250 such obsolete kana forms that were common in the Heian through Edo periods, allowing modern digital preservation and scholarly text analysis of ancient manuscripts. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that historical Japanese literature, calligraphic works, and archival documents containing this variant can be accurately represented electronically without loss of orthographic nuance.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B041
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Sa-6
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛁁
HTML Hex Encoding 𛁁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC41
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B041
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc41

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