U+1B039 "𛀹" Hentaigana Letter Ko-2 Unicode Character

U+1B039 "𛀹" Hentaigana Letter Ko-2 is a historical variant form of the Japanese hiragana character for the syllable "ko," drawn from the set of hentaigana, which are obsolete or alternative cursive abbreviations of kanji used in classical Japanese writing before the standard modern kana orthography was established. This specific glyph represents a distinct calligraphic style derived from the cursive writing of the kanji 古, and it was encoded in Unicode to support scholarly work, digital preservation, and the accurate rendering of premodern Japanese texts where various hentaigana shapes were employed.