What 𛀑 means
It represents the Japanese kana sound written え. 𛀑 is hentaigana, a historical variant of hiragana. Its source kanji is 衣: the kanji supplied the cursive form and sound, not the meaning “clothing.” Read it as え/e; the surrounding word supplies the meaning.
The wider kana tradition grew from man’yōgana, which used kanji for their sounds, and was developing by the late ninth century. This character belongs to that history of sound-based writing and cursive forms.
Why does this old form still appear?
It signals history or tradition more than a different sound. After a 1900 school reform standardized one hiragana form per sound, hentaigana receded from ordinary writing. In modern Japan, the forms remain in personal names, historical study, family records and traditional shop names or logos.
Use 𛀑 when you want this historical letterform or a traditional visual style. It does not add a separate meaning to a modern Japanese sentence.
Historical, specialist or deliberately traditional; it is not ordinary modern Japanese writing.
衣 is the source kanji here, not a word meaning “clothing” in the reading.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
2Why does 𛀑 show as a square?
A font without this character causes the square. Use a font with hentaigana coverage; the text still contains the same character.
Can I use 𛀑 in modern Japanese?
Yes, but it reads as historical or decorative rather than ordinary contemporary writing. Use え for standard modern text.
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How to type or find 𛀑
- Also called
- hentaigana e · 衣の変体仮名
- Search it as
- hentaigana · 変体仮名 · kuzushiji · variant kana · archaic kana · e kana · old Japanese · 衣 kana
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𛀑\1B011Codes and encoding1 code points
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