U+1B073 "𛁳" Hentaigana Letter Te-6 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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
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