U+30AE "ギ" Katakana Letter Gi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+30AE "ギ" Katakana Letter Gi is a Japanese katakana character representing the syllable "gi," formed by adding a dakuten (a voicing mark) to the base character "キ" (ki). It is primarily used in the Japanese writing system to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and technical or scientific terms, where the voiced velar plosive sound /ɡi/ is required. The character belongs to the Katakana block of Unicode and is encoded with the hexadecimal value 30AE, allowing it to be displayed and processed across digital platforms that support Unicode standards.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30AE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Gi |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "キ" U+30AD Katakana Letter Ki "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ギ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ギ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30ae |
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 |