U+304F "く" Hiragana Letter Ku Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+304F "く" Hiragana Letter Ku is a fundamental syllabic character in the Japanese writing system, specifically part of the hiragana script used for native Japanese words and grammatical elements. It represents the sound "ku" as in the English word "kookoo" and is derived from the cursive form of the kanji 久, which means "long time" or "long lasting." In modern usage, this character appears frequently in everyday Japanese text, forming parts of common words like くる (kuru, meaning "to come") or くもり (kumori, meaning "cloudy weather"). Visually, it is a simple, curved stroke resembling a sideways "V" or a bent line, making it one of the more recognizable hiragana characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+304F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Ku |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | く |
| HTML Hex Encoding | く |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x304F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000304F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u304f |