U+1B152 "𛅒" Hiragana Letter Small Wo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𛅒
U+1B152 "𛅒" Hiragana Letter Small Wo is a rare and smaller variant of the standard hiragana character を (wo), primarily intended for use in historical or archaic Japanese texts, such as in the transcription of classical works or in linguistic documentation of earlier writing conventions. Unlike its full-sized counterpart, this small version is not commonly used in modern Japanese, which typically reserves small kana for digraphs like きょ (kyo). Its inclusion in Unicode serves to support accurate representation of manuscripts or specialized transcriptions where the diminutive size of the character carries specific phonetic or orthographic significance, particularly in distinguishing it from its standard form in scholarly contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B152 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Small Wo |
| Block | Small Kana Extension |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛅒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛅒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x85 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD52 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B152 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd52 |