U+3070 "ば" Hiragana Letter Ba Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3070 "ば" Hiragana Letter Ba is a syllable in the Japanese hiragana script, representing the sound "ba" which is derived from the base character "は" (ha) by adding a dakuten, the two small strokes that indicate a voiced consonant. This character is part of the larger set of hiragana used in the Japanese writing system alongside katakana and kanji, primarily to write native Japanese words, grammatical elements like particles and verb endings, and words where kanji are not used or known. In the Unicode standard, it occupies the range designated for hiragana, with the code point U+3070 in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) syllabary block, ensuring its consistent digital representation across platforms for text processing, storage, and display of the Japanese language.

General Properties

Code Point U+3070
Version Added 1.1
Name Hiragana Letter Ba
Block Hiragana
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "は" U+306F Hiragana Letter Ha
"゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ば
HTML Hex Encoding ば
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x81 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3070
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003070
C/C++/Java Escape \u3070

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