U+3077 "ぷ" Hiragana Letter Pu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぷ
U+3077 "ぷ" Hiragana Letter Pu is a Japanese syllabary character representing the mora "pu," formed by adding a dakuten, or voicing mark, to the base character "ふ" (hu/fu). It is part of the Hiragana block in Unicode, used primarily in writing native Japanese words, grammatical elements, and loanwords that require a voiced bilabial plosive sound. In modern Japanese, this character appears in various contexts, from everyday vocabulary like "ぷかぷか" (pukapuka, meaning floating lightly) to onomatopoeic expressions, and it exemplifies how diacritical marks modify phonetic values within the kana writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3077 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Pu |
| 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 "゚" U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3077 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003077 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3077 |
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 |