U+3051 "け" Hiragana Letter Ke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
け
U+3051 "け" Hiragana Letter Ke is a fundamental character in the Japanese writing system, representing the syllable "ke" in the hiragana syllabary, which is used for native Japanese words and grammatical elements. It originates from the Chinese character "計" but was simplified into a cursive, flowing form during the development of kana scripts in the Heian period. This character is part of the "ka" consonant row and the "e" vowel group within the standard Japanese syllabary order, and it appears in common words such as "けいさん" (keisan, meaning calculation) and "けんきゅう" (kenkyuu, meaning research). In Unicode, it is categorized under the Hiragana block, which contains all modern hiragana characters essential for writing Japanese text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3051 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Ke |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | け |
| HTML Hex Encoding | け |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3051 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003051 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3051 |