U+1B079 "𛁹" Hentaigana Letter to-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛁹
U+1B079 "𛁹" Hentaigana Letter to-3 is a historic variant of the Japanese hiragana syllable "to" (と), classified under the Hentaigana block of the Unicode standard. Hentaigana are cursive and stylized alternatives to the standard hiragana characters, which were widely used in premodern Japanese texts before the Meiji era standardized the writing system. This particular glyph, "to-3," represents one of several distinct calligraphic forms for the sound "to," making it an important resource for scholars and typographers working with classical Japanese manuscripts, calligraphy, or digital reproductions of historical documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B079 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter to-3 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛁹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛁹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x81 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B079 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc79 |