U+1B165 "𛅥" Katakana Letter Small We Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𛅥

U+1B165 "𛅥" Katakana Letter Small We is a historical Japanese kana character belonging to the Katakana Small Letters Extended block, which represents a small, or subscript, version of the katakana character for the syllable "we." It is distinct from the modern standard katakana system because the sound "we" is no longer used in contemporary Japanese phonology, having merged with "e" over time. This character is part of a set of small kana used to represent historical or archaic pronunciations, particularly in transcriptions of ancient texts or for linguistic scholarship, and it is not found in typical modern Japanese writing. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for accurate digital representation of these rare and specialized orthographic forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1B165
Version Added	12.0
Name	Katakana 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	𛅥
HTML Hex Encoding	𛅥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9B 0x85 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD82C 0xDD65
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001B165
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud82c\udd65

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Conditional Japanese Starter
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Katakana
Script Extensions	Katakana
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Transformed Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Katakana
Sentence Break	OLetter