U+1B111 "𛄑" Hentaigana Letter Wi-5 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛄑
U+1B111 "𛄑" Hentaigana Letter Wi-5 is a historical variant of the Japanese hiragana, specifically representing the sound "wi" (pronounced like the English "we") and belonging to a collection of older, stylized characters known as hentaigana. This particular variant, designated as "Wi-5," preserves a cursive calligraphic form that was commonly used before the standardization of modern hiragana in the early twentieth century. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows digital preservation and study of premodern Japanese writing, offering linguists and historians a precise way to encode and display these obsolete yet culturally significant scripts in modern text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B111 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Wi-5 |
| Block | Kana Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛄑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛄑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x84 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B111 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd11 |