U+305D "そ" Hiragana Letter So Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
そ
U+305D "そ" Hiragana Letter So is a character used in the Japanese writing system, representing the syllable "so" in the hiragana syllabary. It is derived from the Chinese character 曾 in its cursive style and is one of the 46 basic hiragana characters. This character appears frequently in Japanese text, functioning as a phonetic component in words such as "それ" (sore, meaning "that") and "そこ" (soko, meaning "there"). Its visual form features a distinctive curved stroke that ends in a small loop, making it recognizable among hiragana glyphs in written Japanese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+305D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter So |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | そ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | そ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x305D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000305D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u305d |