U+3058 "じ" Hiragana Letter Zi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3058 "じ" Hiragana Letter Zi is a standardized character in the Japanese hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "ji" as in the word "jikan" (time). It is a voiced version of the base character し (shi), formed by adding a dakuten diacritic mark (two small strokes) to indicate the voiced "z" sound. In modern Japanese usage, "じ" is commonly written and pronounced as "ji" rather than the historical "zi," and it plays an essential role in writing native Japanese words, grammatical particles, and borrowed terms within the language's script system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3058 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Zi |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "し" U+3057 Hiragana Letter Si "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | じ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | じ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3058 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003058 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3058 |
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 |