U+30B0 "グ" Katakana Letter Gu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+30B0 "グ" Katakana Letter Gu is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, specifically representing the voiced syllable "gu," formed by adding a dakuten (a diacritic mark resembling quotation marks) to the base katakana character ク (ku). It is used primarily in the Japanese writing system to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and scientific terms, and appears in common words such as ゲーム (geemu, game) or グーグル (Guuguru, Google). The character’s shape is angular and minimal, reflecting katakana’s origins as a simplified script derived from Chinese characters for Buddhist textual annotation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30B0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Gu |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ク" U+30AF Katakana Letter Ku "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | グ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | グ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30b0 |
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 |