U+3065 "づ" Hiragana Letter Du Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
づ
U+3065 "づ" Hiragana Letter Du is a syllabic character from the Japanese hiragana writing system, representing the mora /du/, though in modern standard Japanese pronunciation it is typically realized as /zu/, identical to the sound of its counterpart ず (U+305A). It is used in native Japanese words and grammatical forms, most notably as the voiced variant of the hiragana character つ (tsu), indicated by the addition of a dakuten diacritic mark. This character appears in various common words, such as つづく (tsuzuku, meaning "to continue"), and plays a key role in differentiating meanings and tenses in Japanese text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3065 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Du |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "つ" U+3064 Hiragana Letter Tu "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | づ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | づ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3065 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003065 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3065 |
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 |