U+1B044 "𛁄" Hentaigana Letter Si-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛁄
U+1B044 "𛁄" Hentaigana Letter Si-1 is a historic variant form of the Japanese hiragana syllable "si" (modernly written as し), belonging to the collection of hentaigana characters that were used before the standardized kana system was established in the early 20th century. This specific glyph represents one of several alternative cursive shapes derived from the Chinese character 志, and it was employed in premodern Japanese texts alongside other hentaigana to add stylistic variety or to differentiate handwritten manuscripts. Today, it is encoded in the Unicode standard within the Supplementary Multilingual Plane to support scholarly research, digital preservation, and accurate representation of historical Japanese documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B044 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Si-1 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛁄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛁄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B044 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc44 |