U+1B057 "𛁗" Hentaigana Letter so-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛁗
U+1B057 "𛁗" Hentaigana Letter so-1 is a historic variant of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "so," part of the hentaigana set of alternative phonetic glyphs used prior to the standardization of modern hiragana in the early 20th century. This specific character, designated as "so-1," represents one of the several stylized cursive forms derived from the Chinese character 曽, and it appears in historical Japanese manuscripts and woodblock prints, offering scholars and typographers a way to digitally preserve and reproduce the rich calligraphic diversity of pre-modern Japanese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B057 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter so-1 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛁗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛁗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B057 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc57 |