U+1B048 "𛁈" Hentaigana Letter Si-5 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛁈
U+1B048 "𛁈" Hentaigana Letter Si-5 is a specific variant form of the hiragana character "し" (si/ shi) belonging to the historical and ornamental Hentaigana script used in pre-modern Japanese writing. This particular glyph, classified as "Si-5" in Unicode's standardized nomenclature, represents one of several alternative, cursive calligraphic renderings of the syllable "si" that were common before the modern orthographic standardization in 1900. While no longer part of standard Japanese orthography, this character is encoded in Unicode's Hentaigana block to support scholarly, historical, and typographic reproduction of classical Japanese texts and aesthetic designs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B048 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Si-5 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛁈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛁈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B048 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc48 |