U+30A6 "ウ" Katakana Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ウ
U+30A6 "ウ" Katakana Letter U is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary used primarily to represent the syllable "u," the third vowel sound in the Japanese language. It is derived from the kanji 宇, and its form consists of two strokes, typically written as a curved line with a short diagonal descending from its right. In modern Japanese writing, it is employed for transliterating foreign words, emphasizing loanwords, onomatopoeia, or technical terms, and it appears as a component in compound characters like ウィ (wi) or ヴ (vu) when combined with diacritics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30A6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter U |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ウ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ウ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30a6 |