U+1B0EC "𛃬" Hentaigana Letter Yo-6 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛃬
U+1B0EC "𛃬" Hentaigana Letter Yo-6 is a specific historical variant form of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "yo," which was used in the cursive Hentaigana script before the standardization of modern hiragana during the Meiji era. This particular glyph represents the sixth known variant shape for the sound "yo" and is encoded in the Unicode standard within the Hentaigana block to support proper digital representation and study of classical Japanese documents, calligraphy, and historical texts. Its inclusion helps preserve the rich diversity of premodern Japanese writing systems for scholars and enthusiasts of Japanese paleography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B0EC |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Yo-6 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛃬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛃬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x83 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDCEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B0EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udcec |