U+1B0D9 "𛃙" Hentaigana Letter Mo-3 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛃙

U+1B0D9 "𛃙" Hentaigana Letter Mo-3 is a specific variant form of the Japanese hiragana character "も" (mo), belonging to the hentaigana set of historical or alternate cursive scripts that were commonly used in Japan before the standardization of modern kana in the early 20th century. This particular character, designated as "Mo-3" in the Unicode standard, represents one of the several calligraphic variations of the syllable "mo" that were employed in handwritten documents and printed materials from the Heian through the Edo periods. Its inclusion in Unicode allows researchers, linguists, and digital humanities scholars to accurately render and study premodern Japanese texts, preserving the typographic diversity that was once an integral part of written Japanese culture. The glyph itself is derived from the cursive style of writing the kanji "裳" (mo, meaning "skirt" or "robe"), simplified over centuries of handwriting and now encoded as a distinct digital representation for historical an

General Properties

Code Point U+1B0D9
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Mo-3
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛃙
HTML Hex Encoding 𛃙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x83 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDCD9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B0D9
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udcd9

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