U+1B001 "𛀁" Hiragana Letter Archaic Ye Unicode Character

U+1B001 "𛀁" Hiragana Letter Archaic Ye is a historical Japanese kana character representing a syllable that once existed in Old Japanese but fell out of standard use by the Heian period. This specific glyph, derived from the cursive form of the Chinese character 江, was used to denote the sound "ye" before the script was standardized and the sound merged into the modern "e" (え) in contemporary hiragana. It belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane and is part of the Kana Extended-A block, primarily of interest to scholars studying ancient Japanese phonology and textual artifacts.