U+1B053 "𛁓" Hentaigana Letter Se-2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛁓
U+1B053 "𛁓" Hentaigana Letter Se-2 is a historical variant of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "se," belonging to the hentaigana set of non-standard cursive kana used before the modern standardization of Japanese orthography in 1900. This specific form, designated as "Se-2," represents one of several alternative ways to write the sound, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard within the Hentaigana block to support scholarly research, digital preservation of premodern texts, and accurate representation of historical Japanese calligraphy and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B053 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Se-2 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛁓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛁓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B053 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc53 |