U+3079 "べ" Hiragana Letter Be Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
べ
U+3079 "べ" Hiragana Letter Be is a character in the Japanese hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "be". It is formed by adding a dakuten, or two small strokes, to the base character "へ" (he), which modifies its pronunciation from an unvoiced to a voiced consonant. Linguistically, it belongs to the は行 (ha-gyō) or H-row of the hiragana chart and is commonly used in Japanese writing to form words, grammatical particles, and verb conjugations, such as in the word "べんきょう" (benkyō) meaning "study". Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3079 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Be |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "へ" U+3078 Hiragana Letter He "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | べ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | べ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3079 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003079 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3079 |
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 |