U+1B098 "𛂘" Hentaigana Letter Ne-Ko Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛂘
U+1B098 "𛂘" Hentaigana Letter Ne-Ko is a historical variant of the Japanese hiragana syllabary, specifically representing the syllable "ne" but derived from the cursive or stylized writing of the character "子" (ko), which means "child." This hentaigana form, which combines the phonetic value of "ne" with the graphical origin of "ko," was used in pre-modern Japanese texts before the standardization of hiragana in the early 20th century, and it has been encoded in Unicode to preserve and enable digital representation of historical Japanese calligraphy and literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B098 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ne-Ko |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛂘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛂘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x82 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B098 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc98 |