U+1B06F "𛁯" Hentaigana Letter Te-2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛁯
U+1B06F "𛁯" Hentaigana Letter Te-2 is a historic variant of the modern Japanese hiragana character "て" (te), belonging to the set of hentaigana, or alternate phonetic scripts that were widely used in Japan before the standardization of kana in 1900 under the Meiji period educational reforms. This specific form, known as Te-2, represents a cursive or stylized derivation from the Chinese character 天, and it appears in historical documents and calligraphy, offering a glimpse into the diverse writing practices that preceded modern Japanese orthography. Today, it is encoded in Unicode to support scholarly research and digital preservation of classical texts and manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B06F |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Te-2 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛁯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛁯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC6F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B06F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc6f |