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

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