U+30AD "キ" Katakana Letter Ki Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
キ
U+30AD "キ" Katakana Letter Ki is a character from the Katakana script used in the Japanese writing system, primarily to represent the phoneme "ki" and is often employed for writing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific terms, or for emphasis in Japanese text. Its visual shape is derived from a simplified part of the kanji "几," and it is encoded in the Unicode standard under the block "Katakana," where it follows the same pattern as other katakana characters that form a core part of modern Japanese orthography alongside Hiragana and Kanji.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30AD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ki |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | キ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | キ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30ad |