U+1B014 "𛀔" Hentaigana Letter O-1 Unicode Character

U+1B014 "𛀔" Hentaigana Letter O-1 is a historic variant form of the modern Japanese hiragana character "お" (o), belonging to the set of hentaigana, or alternative, obsolete kana that were widely used in Japan before the standardization of the modern syllabary in the early 20th century. This specific glyph, classified as O-1, represents one of several cursive calligraphic shapes derived from the Chinese character "於" and was historically employed in handwritten texts and early printed materials to write the phonetic sound "o". Today, it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the digital representation of classical Japanese literature, historical documents, and linguistic research, preserving the rich typographic diversity of premodern Japanese writing.