U+1B073 "𛁳" Hentaigana Letter Te-6 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛁳

U+1B073 "𛁳" Hentaigana Letter Te-6 is a specific, historic variant form of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "te", belonging to the category of hentaigana, which are the non-standard cursive letterforms that were widely used in Japan prior to the standardization of the modern hiragana syllabary in 1900. This particular glyph, part of the "te-6" family within the hentaigana system, was derived from a highly cursive or simplified writing of the Chinese character 天 (meaning heaven or sky), and it represents a tangible artifact of the complex, pre-modern Japanese writing system where multiple character forms could represent the same sound, offering valuable insight to linguists and historians studying the evolution of Japanese orthography and calligraphic traditions.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B073
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Te-6
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛁳
HTML Hex Encoding 𛁳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC73
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B073
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc73

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