U+30AC "ガ" Katakana Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ガ
U+30AC "ガ" Katakana Letter Ga is a Japanese kana character representing the syllable "ga", formed by adding a dakuten (a voicing mark) to the base katakana character "カ" (ka). It is used in the modern Japanese writing system primarily to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and scientific terms, as well as for emphasis in informal text. In Unicode, it belongs to the Katakana block encoded in version 1.1 of the standard, and its usage follows the phonetic pattern common to the Japanese syllabary, where the dakuten transforms the voiceless "k" sound into the voiced "g" sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30AC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ga |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "カ" U+30AB Katakana Letter Ka "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ガ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ガ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30ac |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Katakana |
| Script Extensions | Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Katakana |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |