U+3072 "ひ" Hiragana Letter Hi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ひ
U+3072 "ひ" Hiragana Letter Hi is a fundamental character in the Japanese hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "hi" as in the English word "he" but with a softer, less aspirated sound. It belongs to the Hiragana block of the Unicode standard and is used extensively in writing native Japanese words, grammatical particles, and as a phonetic complement to kanji characters. Its visual form is a flowing, curved script derived from the Chinese character "比" and is often found in everyday vocabulary such as "ひと" (hito) meaning person, "ひる" (hiru) meaning noon, and "ほし" (hoshi) meaning star when combined with other characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3072 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Hi |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ひ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ひ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3072 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003072 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3072 |