U+3049 "ぉ" Hiragana Letter Small O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぉ
U+3049 "ぉ" Hiragana Letter Small O is a typographic variant of the standard hiragana character "お" (o) that is used in the Japanese writing system to indicate a palatalized or reduced pronunciation of the preceding consonant, often appearing in compound kana combinations such as "ちょ" or "ふぉ" to represent sounds not native to traditional Japanese. Unlike its regular-sized counterpart, this small form does not stand alone as a full syllable but modifies the sound of the character that comes before it, making it an essential component for accurately transcribing foreign loanwords and certain dialectical pronunciations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3049 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Small O |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3049 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003049 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3049 |