U+305E "ぞ" Hiragana Letter Zo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぞ
U+305E "ぞ" Hiragana Letter Zo is a character in the Japanese hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "zo." It is formed by adding a dakuten, a diacritical mark resembling two small strokes, to the base hiragana character "そ" (so). This character is used in the Japanese writing system to transcribe native Japanese words and grammatical elements, and it is a common component of standard text, playing a role in both historical and modern written Japanese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+305E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Zo |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "そ" U+305D Hiragana Letter So "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x305E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000305E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u305e |
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 |