U+1B0BE "𛂾" Hentaigana Letter Ho-5 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛂾
U+1B0BE "𛂾" Hentaigana Letter Ho-5 is a specific historical variant of the Japanese hiragana character "ほ" (ho), belonging to the set of hentaigana, which are obsolete or alternative cursive forms that were used before the modern standard hiragana script was established in 1900. This particular glyph, designated as Ho-5 in the formal Unicode naming convention, represents a distinct calligraphic style that was once employed in classical Japanese texts and documents. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally represent the rich typographic diversity of premodern Japanese writing, allowing researchers, linguists, and enthusiasts to accurately render historical manuscripts and scholarly works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B0BE |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ho-5 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛂾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛂾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x82 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDCBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B0BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udcbe |