U+3073 "び" Hiragana Letter Bi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
び
U+3073 "び" Hiragana Letter Bi is a syllable in the Japanese hiragana writing system, representing the sound "bi" as in the English word "bee." It is formed by adding a dakuten, a diacritical mark consisting of two small strokes, to the base character "ひ" (hi), which transforms its pronunciation from an unvoiced to a voiced consonant. This character is used in writing native Japanese words, as well as in grammatical elements like verb conjugations and particles, and it features a smooth, cursive stroke order typical of hiragana script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3073 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Bi |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ひ" U+3072 Hiragana Letter Hi "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | び |
| HTML Hex Encoding | び |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3073 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003073 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3073 |
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 |