U+30B1 "ケ" Katakana Letter Ke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ケ
U+30B1 "ケ" Katakana Letter Ke is a character from the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the sound "ke" and used primarily for writing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and scientific terms. It is derived from the kanji 計 and visually resembles a simplified version of that character, with two short strokes extending to the left from a longer vertical line. In modern Japanese, it functions as a core component of the writing system alongside hiragana and kanji, and it holds a standardized position in Unicode's Katakana block, which was encoded to facilitate digital text processing and international data exchange.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30B1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ke |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ケ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ケ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30B1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030B1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30b1 |