U+307D "ぽ" Hiragana Letter Po Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ぽ
U+307D "ぽ" Hiragana Letter Po is a character from the Japanese hiragana syllabary, representing the syllable "po." It is formed by combining the base hiragana character "ほ" (ho) with a handakuten, a small circular diacritic mark that changes the consonant sound from "h" to "p." This character is used in written Japanese to spell native words, grammatical particles, and as part of compound words or loanwords. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and interchange across devices and platforms, supporting the seamless use of modern and classical Japanese text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+307D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Po |
| 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 "゚" U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ぽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ぽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x307D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000307D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u307d |
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 |