U+306E "の" Hiragana Letter No Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
の
U+306E "の" Hiragana Letter No is a fundamental component of the Japanese writing system, representing the syllable "no" and serving primarily as a possessive particle, akin to an apostrophe-s in English, as well as a nominalizing particle and a connector in various grammatical constructions. This character is derived from the cursive simplification of the Chinese character 乃, and it appears frequently in written Japanese across contexts ranging from everyday conversation to formal literature. In Unicode, it is classified under the Hiragana block, which encodes the phonetic script used for native Japanese words and grammatical functions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+306E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter No |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | の |
| HTML Hex Encoding | の |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x306E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000306E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u306e |