U+1B06C "𛁬" Hentaigana Letter Tu-4 Unicode Character

U+1B06C "𛁬" Hentaigana Letter Tu-4 is a historic variant form of the modern Japanese hiragana character "つ" (tu), belonging to the set of hentaigana, or alternative cursive scripts that were commonly used in Japan before the standardization of the kana syllabary in the early 20th century. This specific glyph represents the fourth known historical variant for the syllable "tu" and is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Hentaigana block, which was added to support the digital preservation and scholarly study of premodern Japanese texts. Its usage is primarily academic and typographic, allowing for the accurate representation of historical documents where multiple cursive forms of the same syllable appear.