U+1B041 "𛁁" Hentaigana Letter Sa-6 Unicode Character

U+1B041 "𛁁" Hentaigana Letter Sa-6 is a historical variant form, or hentaigana, of the modern Japanese hiragana character "さ" (sa), specifically representing a stylized cursive simplification used in pre-modern Japanese writing before the script standardizations of the Meiji era. This glyph belongs to the "Kana Extended-A" block, which encodes over 250 such obsolete kana forms that were common in the Heian through Edo periods, allowing modern digital preservation and scholarly text analysis of ancient manuscripts. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures that historical Japanese literature, calligraphic works, and archival documents containing this variant can be accurately represented electronically without loss of orthographic nuance.