U+3052 "げ" Hiragana Letter Ge Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
げ
U+3052 "げ" Hiragana Letter Ge is a Japanese syllabic character representing the voiced syllable "ge," formed by adding a dakuten (voicing mark) to the base hiragana character "け" (ke). It is part of the Hiragana block within Unicode and is used extensively in written Japanese to transcribe native words, grammatical elements, and loanwords. This character belongs to the gojūon (五十音) ordering system, specifically in the か (ka) row, and it plays a role in indicating the voiced pronunciation of the “k” sound transforming into a “g” sound in various linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3052 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Ge |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "け" U+3051 Hiragana Letter Ke "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | げ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | げ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3052 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003052 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3052 |
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 |