U+1B08A "𛂊" Hentaigana Letter Ni-4 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛂊
U+1B08A "𛂊" Hentaigana Letter Ni-4 is a historical variant of the modern Japanese hiragana character "に" (ni), belonging to the set of hentaigana or alternative cursive forms that were once widely used in Japan before the standardization of the kana syllabary in the early 20th century. This specific glyph, distinguished by its distinctive sweeping stroke and enclosed shape, represents the fourth known variant of the character for the syllable "ni" and is encoded in Unicode’s Kana Extended-A block to support the digital preservation and study of premodern Japanese manuscripts and calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B08A |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ni-4 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛂊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛂊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x82 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B08A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc8a |