U+1B06B "𛁫" Hentaigana Letter Tu-3 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛁫

U+1B06B "𛁫" Hentaigana Letter Tu-3 is a historical variant form of the Japanese hiragana syllable "tu" (now pronounced "tsu" in standard modern Japanese) used in the Hentaigana script, which consists of alternative and obsolete cursive forms of hiragana that were widely employed before the standardization of Japanese writing in the early 20th century. This specific character is one of several variants for the syllable tu, numbered as the third distinct style, and it appears in historical documents, calligraphy, and literature where authors chose from a range of graceful, personalized kana shapes. Encoding this character allows digital preservation and accurate rendering of pre-modern Japanese texts, ensuring that scholars and enthusiasts can study and reproduce the nuanced orthography of the Edo and Meiji periods.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B06B
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Tu-3
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛁫
HTML Hex Encoding 𛁫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC6B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B06B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc6b

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