U+307C "ぼ" Hiragana Letter Bo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぼ
U+307C "ぼ" Hiragana Letter Bo is a character in the Japanese writing system, specifically a hiragana syllabary symbol representing the syllable "bo." It is formed by adding a dakuten, which is a diacritical mark resembling two small strokes, to the base hiragana character "ほ" (ho). This character is used in the transcription of native Japanese words, grammatical particles, and borrowed terms, and it is part of the standard set of hiragana essential for writing the Japanese language, where it functions as a voiced bilabial plosive sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+307C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Bo |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ほ" U+307B Hiragana Letter Ho "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x307C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000307C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u307c |
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 |