U+1B016 "𛀖" Hentaigana Letter O-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1B016 "𛀖" Hentaigana Letter O-3 is a specific glyph from the hentaigana set, which represents a historical variant of the modern hiragana character "を" (wo), historically used in Japanese writing before standardizing script reforms. This particular form, designated as O-3, is one of several alternate shapes for the sound "o" that appear in premodern texts, where multiple hentaigana forms existed for each phonetic syllable. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of classical Japanese documents, and it belongs to the Kana Supplement block.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1B016
Name
Hentaigana Letter O-3
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
𛀖
HTML Hex Encoding
𛀖
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9B 0x80 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD82C 0xDC16
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001B016
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud82c\udc16
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hiragana