U+3050 "ぐ" Hiragana Letter Gu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぐ
U+3050 "ぐ" Hiragana Letter Gu is a Japanese hiragana syllabogram representing the sound "gu," formed by adding a dakuten (voicing mark) to the base character "く" (ku). It is part of the Hiragana block within Unicode and is used primarily in written Japanese to denote the voiced velar plosive in words like ぐるぐる (guruguru, meaning "round and round") or as a grammatical particle in contexts such as verb conjugations. The character's standard Unicode name reflects its linguistic role, and it is encoded for compatibility with digital text processing, allowing for accurate representation of Japanese scripts in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3050 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Gu |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "く" U+304F Hiragana Letter Ku "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3050 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003050 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3050 |
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 |