U+1B122 "𛄢" Katakana Letter Archaic Wu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛄢
U+1B122 "𛄢" Katakana Letter Archaic Wu is a rarely used glyph from the Extended Katakana block, added in Unicode version 14.0 in 2021 to represent a historical phonetic notation in Japanese. It specifically denotes an archaic or premodern pronunciation of the sound "wu" (as opposed to the standard modern "u") and was employed in early Japanese texts for transcribing foreign words or obsolete linguistic forms. This character helps preserve and digitally encode the orthographic nuances of ancient Japanese writing, ensuring that scholars and linguists can accurately represent historical documents without needing custom fonts or workarounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B122 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Katakana 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 | 𛄢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛄢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x84 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B122 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd22 |