U+1B10D "𛄍" Hentaigana Letter Wi-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛄍
U+1B10D "𛄍" Hentaigana Letter Wi-1 is a historic variant form of the Japanese hiragana syllable "wi," representing one of the many alternative cursive shapes, known as hentaigana, that were used in the Japanese writing system before the standardization of kana in the early 20th century. This specific glyph, classified as Wi-1, is derived from a stylized, continuous stroke rendering of the Chinese character from which the obsolete syllable originated. It is part of the Unicode block for Hentaigana and serves to preserve the typographic diversity of premodern Japanese manuscripts, where multiple alternate forms of the same phonetic value coexisted.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B10D |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Wi-1 |
| Block | Kana Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛄍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛄍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x84 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B10D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd0d |