U+1B116 "𛄖" Hentaigana Letter Wo-1 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛄖
U+1B116 "𛄖" Hentaigana Letter Wo-1 is a historical Japanese syllabary glyph representing the mora "wo," which is part of the hentaigana set, an array of variant cursive forms of hiragana that were widely used before the modern standardization of the Japanese writing system in the early 20th century. This specific character is one of multiple historical ways to write the syllable "wo" and belongs to the Kana Extended-A block, which was added to Unicode to preserve and encode these obsolete but culturally significant characters for scholarly and typographic purposes. Unlike the modern hiragana "を" (used primarily as a particle), "𛄖" offers a glimpse into the orthographic diversity of premodern Japanese manuscripts and calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B116 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Wo-1 |
| Block | Kana Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛄖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛄖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x84 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B116 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd16 |