U+305F "た" Hiragana Letter Ta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+305F "た" Hiragana Letter Ta is a fundamental syllabic character in the Japanese writing system, representing the sound "ta" as part of the hiragana script used primarily for native Japanese words and grammatical elements. It is derived from the Chinese character 多, and its cursive style evolved during the Heian period. In modern usage, "た" appears frequently in words such as "たべる" (taberu, meaning "to eat") and serves as a key component in verb conjugation, including the past tense marker. Along with the katakana equivalent タ, it is widely used in everyday Japanese text, from literature to digital communication, and is essential to mastering the language's phonetic alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+305F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Ta |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | た |
| HTML Hex Encoding | た |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x305F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000305F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u305f |