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U+3056 CHARACTER

HIRAGANA LETTER ZA

Quick Facts

Unicode Name HIRAGANA LETTER ZA
Code Point U+3056
Decimal Value 12374
General Category Other Letter (Lo) →
Unicode Block Hiragana →
Script Hiragana →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E3 81 96
UTF-16 Code Unit 3056
UTF-32 4 bytes 00003056
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 30 56 LE: 56 30
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 30 56 LE: 56 30 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ざ
HTML Hexadecimal ざ
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \003056
JavaScript (ES6) \u3056
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u3056
JSON Escape \u3056
Python \u3056
PHP "\u{3056}"
Java "\u3056"
C / C++ "\u3056"
Rust '\u{3056}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E3%81%96

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition 3055 3099 canonical
NFC / NFD Forms NFD decomposes to constituent code points; NFC composes into this unified scalar.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+3056 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A ざ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A ざ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A ざ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A ざ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name HIRAGANA LETTER ZA

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+3056

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