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U+308F CHARACTER

HIRAGANA LETTER WA

Quick Facts

Unicode Name HIRAGANA LETTER WA
Code Point U+308F
Decimal Value 12431
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 82 8F
UTF-16 Code Unit 308F
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000308F
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 30 8F LE: 8F 30
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 30 8F LE: 8F 30 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal わ
HTML Hexadecimal わ
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00308F
JavaScript (ES6) \u308F
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u308F
JSON Escape \u308F
Python \u308F
PHP "\u{308F}"
Java "\u308F"
C / C++ "\u308F"
Rust '\u{308f}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E3%82%8F

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+308F across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

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

Names & Aliases

Official Name HIRAGANA LETTER WA

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

Identifier U+308F

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