U+1B0B4 "𛂴" Hentaigana Letter He-2 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛂴

U+1B0B4 "𛂴" Hentaigana Letter He-2 is a variant form of the Japanese hiragana character "へ" (he), belonging to the set of hentaigana, which are historical, non-standard kana characters that were widely used before the modern standardized writing system was established in 1900. This specific glyph, designated as He-2, represents one of the alternative cursive shapes for the syllable "he" and is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Hentaigana block, introduced to support historical Japanese texts and scholarly work in linguistics. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the rich typographic diversity of pre-modern Japanese writing, allowing digital representation and analysis of documents such as classical literature, calligraphy, and Edo-period manuscripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B0B4
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter He-2
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛂴
HTML Hex Encoding 𛂴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x82 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDCB4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B0B4
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udcb4

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