U+1B0ED "𛃭" Hentaigana Letter Ra-1 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛃭

U+1B0ED "𛃭" Hentaigana Letter Ra-1 is a specific variant form of the Japanese hiragana character "ら" (ra), belonging to the historical hentaigana script which was widely used before the Meiji period standardization of kana. This particular glyph represents one of the multiple alternative ways the syllable "ra" could be written in cursive styles, often derived from the Chinese character įž… (ra) with significant graphical simplification. Hentaigana characters like this are now primarily of interest to calligraphers, historical text scholars, and digital typography enthusiasts, as they add nuance to the rendition of classical Japanese literature and documents. U+1B0ED resides in the Unicode Hentaigana block, which was added to preserve and digitally represent these obsolete yet culturally significant letterforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B0ED
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Ra-1
Block Kana Supplement
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛃭
HTML Hex Encoding 𛃭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x83 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDCED
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B0ED
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udced

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