U+1B150 "𛅐" Hiragana Letter Small Wi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1B150 "𛅐" Hiragana Letter Small Wi is a historic and rarely used kana character representing the syllable "wi" in the Japanese hiragana script, distinguished by its smaller form compared to the standard hiragana character を. This character is part of the Kana Extended-B block, which includes various supplementary and archaic kana used for phonetic representation in premodern Japanese texts, such as from the Heian and Edo periods. It was historically employed to transcribe foreign loanwords or dialectal sounds, but it fell out of common usage with the standardization of modern Japanese orthography. The small "wi" kana is now primarily of interest to scholars, linguists, and digital archivists working with historical documents, and it requires modern Unicode-compliant fonts and software for correct display and rendering.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𛅐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𛅐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x9B 0x85 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD82C 0xDD50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0001B150 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud82c\udd50 |
Unicode Properties