U+3095 "ゕ" Hiragana Letter Small Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ゕ
U+3095 "ゕ" Hiragana Letter Small Ka is a rarely used variant of the standard hiragana character "か" (ka), distinguished by its smaller size. It is primarily utilized in historical or specialized Japanese texts to indicate a contracted or subtle pronunciation, particularly in the combination "くゕ" or "かゕ" in archaic or dialectal writing. In modern usage, it may appear as a phonetic clue in annotations or as a stylistic element, but it is not a standard component of contemporary Japanese orthography, and its function often parallels that of smaller kana in signaling modifications to the sound or syllable.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3095 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Hiragana Letter Small Ka |
| Block | Hiragana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ゕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ゕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3095 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003095 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3095 |