U+304E "ぎ" Hiragana Letter Gi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぎ
U+304E "ぎ" Hiragana Letter Gi is a Japanese kana character representing the voiced syllable "gi", formed by adding a dakuten (two small strokes) to the base hiragana character for "ki", which is き (U+304D). It is used in the modern Japanese writing system to form words like "ginkgo" (銀杏, いちょう) or "giri" (義理, social obligation) and follows standard phonetic rules for denoting voiced consonant sounds in the language. Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent representation across digital platforms for text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+304E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Gi |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "き" U+304D Hiragana Letter Ki "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x304E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000304E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u304e |
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 |