U+3054 "ご" Hiragana Letter Go Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ご
U+3054 "ご" Hiragana Letter Go is a character in the Japanese Hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "go," which is the voiced counterpart of the unvoiced syllable "ko" (こ). It is formed by adding a dakuten, or voicing mark, to the character こ, and it is used in native Japanese words, grammatical particles, and as part of the reading for many kanji compounds. Historically, this character derives from a cursive form of the Chinese character 己, and in modern usage, it appears in common terms like ご飯 (gohan) for "rice" or "meal" and ごご (gogo) for "afternoon."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3054 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Go |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "こ" U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ご |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ご |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3054 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003054 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3054 |
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 |