U+1B0EF "𛃯" Hentaigana Letter Ra-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛃯
U+1B0EF "𛃯" Hentaigana Letter Ra-3 is a historic Japanese cursive variant of the hiragana character "ら" (ra) used in the Hentaigana block. This specific variant represents one of several nonstandard phonetic forms employed in premodern Japanese writing, particularly in documents like the Man'yōshū and Edo period literature, before modern standardisation. Encoded in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, it allows digital preservation and typographic reproduction of ancient manuscripts, ensuring scholars and enthusiasts can accurately render and study historical Japanese texts without distortion.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B0EF |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ra-3 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛃯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛃯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x83 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDCEF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B0EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udcef |