U+307F "み" Hiragana Letter Mi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
み
U+307F "み" Hiragana Letter Mi is a fundamental symbol in the Japanese writing system, representing the syllable "mi" as a member of the hiragana script used primarily for native Japanese words and grammatical elements. It is part of the Hiragana block in Unicode and follows the standard stroke order for Japanese characters, often taught in elementary language education. The character "み" is derived from the cursive form of the Chinese character "美", meaning beauty, and appears in numerous common words and phrases, such as "みず" (mizu, water) and "みる" (miru, to see). Its phonetic role is stable across standard Japanese dialects, making it an essential building block for writing and reading the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+307F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Mi |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | み |
| HTML Hex Encoding | み |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x81 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x307F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000307F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u307f |