U+30A8 "エ" Katakana Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
エ
U+30A8 "エ" Katakana Letter E is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary used to represent the vowel sound "e". It is one of the five basic vowel characters in katakana, a script primarily employed for writing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, emphasis, and botanical or scientific terms. The shape of エ is derived from a simplified portion of the kanji 江, and it corresponds to the hiragana character え with identical pronunciation. In modern Japanese, this character is commonly found in words like エネルギー (enerugī, meaning "energy") and エアコン (eakon, meaning "air conditioner").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30A8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter E |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | エ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | エ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30a8 |