U+304D "き" Hiragana Letter Ki Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+304D "き" Hiragana Letter Ki is a fundamental character in the Japanese writing system, representing the syllable "ki" and serving as a hiragana symbol used primarily for native Japanese words and grammatical elements. It is one of the 46 basic hiragana characters, derived from the cursive style of the Chinese character 幾, and is often contrasted with its katakana counterpart キ. In Unicode, it is encoded at U+304D within the Hiragana block, which was introduced to standardize digital representation of Japanese text. The character frequently appears in common words like きれい (kirei, meaning "beautiful") and きのう (kinō, meaning "yesterday"), and it forms a core part of the Japanese syllabary essential for literacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+304D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Ki |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | き |
| HTML Hex Encoding | き |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x304D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000304D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u304d |