U+1B05E "𛁞" Hentaigana Letter Ta-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛁞
U+1B05E "𛁞" Hentaigana Letter Ta-1 is a historic variant of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "ta," belonging to the Hentaigana block, which encodes archaic or cursive script forms used in Japanese calligraphy and literature prior to the standardization of modern hiragana in the Meiji era. This particular character represents one of several alternative glyphs for "ta" that were historically employed in everyday writing, offering linguistic and paleographic insights into premodern Japanese orthography and the evolution of script styles. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and facilitate digital access to these traditional characters for scholarly research and cultural documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B05E |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ta-1 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛁞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛁞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B05E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc5e |