U+3081 "め" Hiragana Letter Me Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3081 "め" Hiragana Letter Me is a fundamental component of the Japanese writing system, representing the syllable "me" in the hiragana syllabary, which is one of the three scripts used in modern Japanese alongside katakana and kanji. This character is derived from the cursive simplified form of the Chinese character 女 (meaning woman) and is used in native Japanese words, grammatical particles, and verb conjugations. In Unicode, it falls within the Hiragana block (U+3040 to U+309F) and is commonly employed in written Japanese for words like "目" (me, meaning eye) and "梅" (ume, meaning plum) when written phonetically. Its typical stroke order consists of two strokes, and it plays a vital role in accurately representing the sound and flow of the Japanese language.

General Properties

Code Point U+3081
Version Added 1.1
Name Hiragana Letter Me
Block Hiragana
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding め
HTML Hex Encoding め
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x82 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3081
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003081
C/C++/Java Escape \u3081

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD 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