U+3056 "ざ" Hiragana Letter Za Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ざ
U+3056 "ざ" Hiragana Letter Za is a voiced Japanese syllabic character derived from the unvoiced hiragana "さ" with the addition of a dakuten diacritical mark. Representing the sound "za" in modern Japanese, it belongs to the s-line (さ行) of the hiragana syllabary and is used extensively in writing native Japanese words, grammatical particles, and loanword renderings. Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across systems, preserving its role in Japanese text processing, electronic publishing, and international communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3056 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Za |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "さ" U+3055 Hiragana Letter Sa "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ざ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ざ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3056 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003056 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3056 |
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 |