U+1B0C1 "π" Hentaigana Letter Ho-8 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B0C1 "π" Hentaigana Letter Ho-8 is a rare and stylized variant of the Japanese hiragana character "γ»" (ho), belonging to the Hentaigana block which encompasses historical and cursive alternate forms of standard kana used in classical Japanese writing. This specific glyph, designated Ho-8, represents one of several non standard shapes that evolved from man'yΕgana, the early system of using Chinese characters phonetically, and it was commonly employed before the Meiji era standardized kana orthography in 1900. As part of the Unicode standard, encoding this character ensures that digital texts can preserve the authentic look of historical documents, calligraphy, and literary works where such nuanced letterforms appear.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B0C1 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ho-8 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛃁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛃁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x83 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDCC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B0C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udcc1 |