U+1B106 "𛄆" Hentaigana Letter Ro-5 Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛄆

U+1B106 "𛄆" Hentaigana Letter Ro-5 is a specific variant glyph belonging to the hentaigana, or historical cursive forms, of the Japanese hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "ro". It was encoded in Unicode's Kana Extended-B block as part of a standardized collection of approximately 300 hentaigana characters used in pre-modern Japanese writing, often seen in calligraphic and literary works before the Meiji era standardized kana usage. This particular letter is designated as "ro-5" to distinguish it from other historically documented stylistic variations of the character "ろ", and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can faithfully represent these antique orthographic forms for scholarly, artistic, and heritage preservation purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B106
Version Added 10.0
Name Hentaigana Letter Ro-5
Block Kana Extended-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𛄆
HTML Hex Encoding 𛄆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x9B 0x84 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD82C 0xDD06
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001B106
C/C++/Java Escape \ud82c\udd06

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