U+3076 "ぶ" Hiragana Letter Bu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぶ
U+3076 "ぶ" Hiragana Letter Bu is a symbol used in the Japanese writing system, specifically representing the voiced bilabial syllable "bu" within the hiragana script. It is formed by taking the base hiragana character for "fu" (ふ) and adding a dakuten, which is a diacritical mark consisting of two small strokes, to indicate that the consonant sound is voiced. This character is an essential component of the Japanese mora-based phonetic inventory, appearing frequently in words, verb conjugations, and grammatical particles throughout written Japanese texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3076 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Bu |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ふ" U+3075 Hiragana Letter Hu "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3076 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003076 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3076 |
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 |