U+3088 "よ" Hiragana Letter Yo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
よ
U+3088 "よ" Hiragana Letter Yo is a character from the Japanese writing system used to represent the syllable "yo". It is part of the Hiragana syllabary, which is primarily used for native Japanese words, grammatical functions, and phonetic renderings. In modern Japanese, this character can function as an interjection to call someone's attention, similar to "hey" or "I say" in English.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3088 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Yo |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | よ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | よ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3088 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003088 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3088 |