U+1B0F9 "𛃹" Hentaigana Letter Ru-2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛃹
U+1B0F9 "𛃹" Hentaigana Letter Ru-2 is a historical variant form of the Japanese hiragana character for "ru", belonging to the set of hentaigana which were widely used in Japan before the standardization of the modern kana syllabary in the early 20th century. This specific glyph, known as Ru-2, represents one of several alternative visual representations for the syllable "ru" that appear in premodern calligraphy and printed texts. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Hentaigana block, which helps preserve and digitally represent these historical writing forms for scholarly, linguistic, and cultural purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B0F9 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Ru-2 |
| Block | Kana Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛃹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛃹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x83 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDCF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B0F9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udcf9 |