U+1B09B "𛂛" Hentaigana Letter No-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛂛
U+1B09B "𛂛" Hentaigana Letter No-3 is a specific glyph from the set of historical Japanese syllabary characters known as hentaigana, which were alternative, often cursive, forms of the hiragana script used before the standardized orthography was established in the early 20th century. This particular character represents the syllable "no" and is classified under the Kana Extended-B block, which was added to Unicode to support the encoding of these older, stylized variants for academic, literary, and historical text preservation. Its inclusion allows for accurate digital representation of pre-modern Japanese manuscripts and calligraphy, where such non-standard letterforms frequently appear.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B09B |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter No-3 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛂛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛂛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x82 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDC9B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B09B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udc9b |