U+30AB "カ" Katakana Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
カ
U+30AB "カ" Katakana Letter Ka is a script character used primarily in the Japanese writing system to represent the syllable "ka" as part of the katakana syllabary, which is typically employed for transcribing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and scientific terms. This character is derived from a simplified form of the kanji 加 (meaning "increase" or "add"), and it appears visually as a single stroke resembling a horizontal line with a short vertical stroke descending from it. In modern Japanese, カ occupies the sixth position in the standard katakana ordering (starting with ア, イ, ウ, エ, オ, then カ) and can be modified with diacritical marks to produce the voiced sound ガ (ga) using the dakuten mark.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30AB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ka |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | カ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | カ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30ab |