U+1B0BD "𛂽" Hentaigana Letter Ho-4 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛂽

U+1B0BD "𛂽" Hentaigana Letter Ho-4 is a specific variant form of the Japanese hiragana character "ほ" (ho), belonging to the historical and cursive script known as hentaigana, which was used before the standardization of modern hiragana. This particular glyph, designated as the fourth variant of "ho," represents one of many nonstandard or alternative letter shapes that were once common in premodern Japanese writing, often appearing in calligraphy and printed texts from the Edo period and earlier. Encoded in Unicode's Hentaigana block as part of efforts to preserve and digitize these obsolete characters, "𛂽" helps scholars, linguists, and enthusiasts accurately represent historical Japanese documents and artistic works without losing the nuanced typography of the past.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B0BD
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Ho-4
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛂽
HTML Hex Encoding 𛂽
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x82 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDCBD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B0BD
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udcbd

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