U+1B005 "𛀅" Hentaigana Letter A-Wo Unicode Character

U+1B005 "𛀅" Hentaigana Letter A-Wo is a historical variant form, or hentaigana, of the Japanese kana used to represent the syllable "a" and historically also "wo," as indicated by its name. It belongs to the Kana Supplement block, which encodes these alternative, non-standard cursive shapes that were commonly employed in pre-modern Japanese writing before the Meiji-era standardization of hiragana. This specific glyph originates from a stylized, simplified rendering of a Chinese character, likely derived from the man'yogana system, and it serves as a vestige of Japan's orthographic evolution, now primarily of interest to scholars, calligraphers, and digital preservationists working with historical texts.