U+1B071 "𛁱" Hentaigana Letter Te-4 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛁱

U+1B071 "𛁱" Hentaigana Letter Te-4 is a specific historical variant of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "te," belonging to the set of hentaigana that were once commonly used in Japan before the modern standardization of the kana syllabary in the early 20th century. This particular glyph, designated as "Te-4" by scholars, represents one of the many alternative calligraphic forms derived from cursive renditions of the Chinese character 天 (ten, meaning heaven or sky), which gave rise to the sound "te" in the Japanese phonetic system. As part of the Unicode standard's effort to preserve historical scripts, this character is encoded in the Supplement for Hentaigana block, allowing digital representation and study of pre-modern Japanese writing practices such as those found in Edo-period literature, manuscripts, and art. The inclusion of this hentaigana helps linguists, historians, and typographers accurately reproduce and analyze texts that used these elegant, diverse letter

General Properties

Code Point U+1B071
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Te-4
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛁱
HTML Hex Encoding 𛁱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC71
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B071
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc71

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