U+1B0EB "𛃫" Hentaigana Letter Yo-5 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛃫
U+1B0EB "𛃫" Hentaigana Letter Yo-5 is a rare, historical variant form of the Japanese hiragana character "よ" (yo), which was part of the hentaigana system of cursive, often stylized, alternative syllabary characters used before the standardization of modern hiragana in the early 20th century. This specific glyph belongs to the "Yo-5" subtype, indicating it is the fifth documented variant shape for the syllable "yo" within the Unicode encoding, and it is primarily used in scholarly contexts such as the study of classical Japanese manuscripts and calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B0EB |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Yo-5 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛃫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛃫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x83 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDCEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B0EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udceb |