U+307A "ぺ" Hiragana Letter Pe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぺ
U+307A "ぺ" Hiragana Letter Pe is a character in the Japanese hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "pe," which is the voiceless bilabial plosive sound /p/ combined with the vowel /e/. It is formed by adding a handakuten (a small circle) to the character へ (he), a diacritical mark that changes the consonant sound from /h/ to /p/ in Japanese phonology. This character is used in writing native Japanese words and grammatical elements, as well as in transliterating foreign loanwords and onomatopoeia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+307A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Pe |
| 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 "゚" U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x307A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000307A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u307a |
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 |