U+304C "が" Hiragana Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+304C "が" Hiragana Letter Ga is a fundamental component of the Japanese writing system, representing the voiced syllable "ga" in the hiragana script. It is formed by adding a dakuten, a small diacritical mark resembling quotation marks, to the base character か (ka), which transforms its unvoiced sound. As part of the Japanese syllabary, this character is used extensively in native and borrowed words, often functioning as a grammatical particle to mark the subject of a sentence or to indicate possession. Identified in the Unicode Standard under the range for Hiragana characters, U+304C plays a key role in written Japanese, enabling precise phonetic expression and grammatical clarity in text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+304C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Ga |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "か" U+304B Hiragana Letter Ka "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | が |
| HTML Hex Encoding | が |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x304C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000304C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u304c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Hiragana |
| Script Extensions | Hiragana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |