U+3071 "ぱ" Hiragana Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぱ
U+3071 "ぱ" Hiragana Letter Pa is a character in the Japanese hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "pa". It is a voiced variant of the base hiragana character "は" (ha), formed by adding a handakuten diacritic, which is a small circle placed in the upper right corner of the character. This symbol is primarily used in the Japanese writing system to indicate the bilabial plosive /p/ sound, and it appears in native Japanese words, loanwords, and onomatopoeic expressions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3071 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Pa |
| 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 "゚" U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3071 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003071 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3071 |
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 |