U+1B114 "𛄔" Hentaigana Letter We-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛄔
U+1B114 "𛄔" Hentaigana Letter We-3 is a member of the Kana Extended-A block and represents a historical variant (hentaigana) of the Japanese hiragana syllable "we" (we), which was once part of classical Japanese phonology but is now considered obsolete in modern standard usage. This specific glyph, labeled as "We-3," is one of several hentai-gana forms for that syllable, derived from the cursive style of a Chinese character that was used in premodern Japanese calligraphy and texts. Its inclusion in Unicode supports scholarly work in historical linguistics, paleography, and the digital preservation of classical Japanese literature and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B114 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter We-3 |
| Block | Kana Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛄔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛄔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x84 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B114 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd14 |