U+1B164 "ð›…¤" Katakana Letter Small Wi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B164 "𛅤" Katakana Letter Small Wi is a typographic variant of the standard katakana character for "wi" (usually ヰ), and it belongs to the Katakana Letter Small block, a relatively recent addition to the Unicode standard used for representing obsolete or historical Japanese phonemes in a smaller, subscript-like form. This small character was historically used in older Japanese orthography to indicate a reduced or less prominent pronunciation of the syllable "wi," often in compound or contracted sounds, and it is now primarily encountered in scholarly texts, linguistic reconstructions, or digital renditions of classical literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B164 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Small Wi |
| Block | Small Kana Extension |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𛅤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𛅤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9B 0x85 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD82C 0xDD64 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001B164 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud82c\udd64 |