U+306B "に" Hiragana Letter Ni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+306B "に" Hiragana Letter Ni is a fundamental character in the Japanese writing system, representing the syllable "ni" and serving as one of the 46 basic hiragana symbols used in grammar particles, verb endings, and native Japanese words. Its phonetic value corresponds to the voiced alveolar nasal consonant sound combined with the vowel "i," and in written Japanese, it frequently functions as a locative particle or a dative marker, as well as appearing in common words like "Nihon" (Japan). The character is visually derived from the cursive form of the Chinese character 仁, and it plays an essential role in both formal and informal written Japanese alongside katakana and kanji.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+306B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Ni |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | に |
| HTML Hex Encoding | に |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x306B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000306B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u306b |