U+1B049 "𛁉" Hentaigana Letter Si-6 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛁉
U+1B049 "𛁉" Hentaigana Letter Si-6 is a historic Japanese syllabic character belonging to the Hentaigana block, which represents an alternate, cursive variant of the standard hiragana character "し" (si/ji). This specific glyph, cataloged as Si-6, was traditionally used in premodern Japanese writing systems before the standardization of kana during the Meiji era, and it survives today primarily in scholarly contexts for the study of classical texts, calligraphy, and digital preservation of historical scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B049 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Si-6 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛁉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛁉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B049 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc49 |