U+1B117 "𛄗" Hentaigana Letter Wo-2 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛄗
U+1B117 "𛄗" Hentaigana Letter Wo-2 is a historic variant of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "wo" (を), belonging to the set of hentaigana, or alternative cursive forms that were widely used before the modern standardisation of the Japanese writing system in the early 20th century. Unlike the standard modern hiragana "を", which is primarily used today only as a grammatical particle, this specific variant "Wo-2" represents a particular stylistic or calligraphic choice from historical manuscripts and printed texts, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize these older forms of written Japanese for linguistic research, digital typography, and cultural heritage projects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B117 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Hentaigana Letter Wo-2 |
| Block | Kana Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛄗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛄗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x84 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B117 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd17 |