U+1B151 "ð›…‘" Hiragana Letter Small We Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B151 "ð›…‘" Hiragana Letter Small We is a relatively rare and specialized character from the Kana Extended-B block, representing a small form of the hiragana character for the syllable "we". This character is used primarily in historical or scholarly contexts to transcribe older Japanese texts, where it denotes the now largely obsolete sound that once existed in the language. It is distinct from the standard small kana used for combinations like "kwe" or for modern phonetic transcription, and its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the accurate representation of classical Japanese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B151 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Small We |
| Block | Small Kana Extension |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛅑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛅑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x85 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD51 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B151 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd51 |