U+1B0A9 "𛂩" Hentaigana Letter Hi-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛂩
U+1B0A9 "𛂩" Hentaigana Letter Hi-1 is a historical variant form of the Japanese hiragana character "ひ" (hi), belonging to the hentaigana set of cursive scripts used before the standardization of hiragana in 1900. This specific glyph represents an alternate, stylized way of writing the syllable "hi" derived from a different cursive abbreviation of the Chinese character underlying the standard form. Found primarily in pre modern Japanese manuscripts and calligraphy, such hentaigana characters are now encoded in Unicode under the Kana Extended A block to support scholarly work, digital preservation, and accurate representation of historical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B0A9 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Hi-1 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛂩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛂩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x82 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDCA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B0A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udca9 |