U+1B0C4 "𛃄" Hentaigana Letter Ma-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛃄
U+1B0C4 "𛃄" Hentaigana Letter Ma-3 is a historic variant of the Japanese hiragana syllable "ma" (ま), belonging to the set of hentaigana, or alternative cursive forms of the kana script that were widely used in Japan before the standardization of hiragana in the early 20th century. This specific character represents one of several calligraphic renditions of the mora "ma" and is encoded in the Unicode standard to support the digital preservation of premodern Japanese texts, such as Edo period literature, classical poetry, and handwritten manuscripts, where such stylistic variations were common.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B0C4 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ma-3 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛃄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛃄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x83 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDCC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B0C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udcc4 |