U+1B11F "𛄟" Hiragana Letter Archaic Wu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛄟
U+1B11F "𛄟" Hiragana Letter Archaic Wu is a rare and historical symbol representing an obsolete kana used in classical Japanese writing to denote the sound "wu," which has since fallen out of modern usage. This character belongs to the Kana Extended-A block, which was introduced to encode premodern and hentaigana (variant hiragana) forms that were widely used before the Meiji era standardized the kana syllabary. The archaic "wu" syllable reflects the phonetic diversity of earlier Japanese, where distinctions between "u" and "wu" existed but later merged, leaving this glyph as a nonstandard vestige preserved primarily in historical texts and digital Unicode standards for scholarly and archiving purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B11F |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Archaic Wu |
| Block | Kana Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛄟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛄟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x84 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD1F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B11F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd1f |