U+3060 "だ" Hiragana Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3060 "だ" Hiragana Letter Da is a syllable character in the Japanese hiragana writing system, representing the voiced "da" sound. It is formed by adding a nigori or diacritical mark, which consists of two small strokes, to the base hiragana character "た" (ta). This transformation shifts the consonant from the unvoiced "t" sound to the voiced "d" sound. In Japanese orthography, "だ" is used to transcribe native words, grammatical particles, and verb inflections, and it is distinct from the similar-sounding character in katakana. As part of the Unicode standard, it enables consistent digital representation and processing of the Japanese language across computing systems worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3060 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Da |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "た" U+305F Hiragana Letter Ta "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | だ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | だ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3060 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003060 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3060 |
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 |