U+3078 "へ" Hiragana Letter He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
へ
U+3078 "へ" Hiragana Letter He is a character in the Japanese hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "he" as in "help". This character is derived from the cursive form of the Chinese character 部 and is used in modern Japanese writing to spell native words, grammatical particles such as the direction marker indicating movement toward a location, and as part of loanword transcriptions. Its pronunciation is roughly equivalent to the English "he" but with a less aspirated initial sound. In the Unicode standard, it is part of the Hiragana block and is often employed in text processing, digital typography, and language learning contexts to represent this fundamental phonetic unit of Japanese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3078 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter He |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | へ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | へ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3078 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003078 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3078 |