U+3092 "を" Hiragana Letter Wo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3092 "を" Hiragana Letter Wo is a character in the Japanese writing system, specifically a hiragana syllable used primarily as a grammatical particle rather than a standalone word. It represents the sound "wo" or often "o" in modern standard Japanese, where it functions as an object marker in sentences, indicating the direct object of a verb. Although its pronunciation has largely merged with the vowel "o" in contemporary speech, it remains distinct in writing and is essential for proper Japanese grammar. In Unicode, it falls within the Hiragana block, and its usage is deeply tied to the syntactic structure of the Japanese language, appearing frequently in written texts from novels to news articles.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3092 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Wo |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | を |
| HTML Hex Encoding | を |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3092 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003092 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3092 |