U+1B05B "𛁛" Hentaigana Letter so-5 Unicode Character

U+1B05B "𛁛" Hentaigana Letter so-5 is a historical variant of the Japanese hiragana character "そ" (so), belonging to the collection of hentaigana, or alternative cursive forms of kana that were commonly used in pre-modern Japanese writing before the standardized kana system was established in the early 20th century. This specific character, designated as so-5 in its classification, was derived through cursive abbreviation from the Chinese character 曽 (sō) and was used in classical texts and manuscripts to represent the syllable "so" with a distinct calligraphic style. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard under the Hentaigana block, encoded in 2017, helps preserve and digitally represent these historical scripts, aiding in the study and documentation of Japan’s written heritage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1B05B
Version Added	10.0
Name	Hentaigana Letter so-5
Block	Kana Supplement
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𛁛
HTML Hex Encoding	𛁛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD82C 0xDC5B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001B05B
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud82c\udc5b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Hiragana
Script Extensions	Hiragana
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter