U+1B09D "𛂝" Hentaigana Letter No-5 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛂝

U+1B09D "𛂝" Hentaigana Letter No-5 is a historical variant form of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "no", belonging to the set of hentaigana which are alternative, premodern cursive forms used before the standardisation of hiragana in the early 20th century. This specific character, catalogued in the Unicode Hentaigana block, originates from distinct calligraphic traditions and once served to differentiate nuances in personal handwriting, literature, and official documents from the Heian period onward. Today it is preserved primarily in scholarly contexts for the study of classical Japanese texts, calligraphy, and historical typography, representing a rich cultural heritage of written expression that predates the modern standard writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B09D
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter No-5
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛂝
HTML Hex Encoding 𛂝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x82 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDC9D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B09D
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udc9d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hiragana
Script Extensions Hiragana
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter