U+30B2 "ゲ" Katakana Letter Ge Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+30B2 "ゲ" Katakana Letter Ge is a sign in the Japanese katakana syllabary that represents the sound "ge", typically used to write foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, or technical terms. It is formed by adding a dakuten or voiced diacritic mark (two small strokes) to the base katakana character ケ (ke), following the standard pattern for indicating a voiced consonant in Japanese script. In Unicode, it belongs to the Katakana block (U+30A0 to U+30FF) and has a standardized codepoint at decimal position 12466, ensuring consistent encoding across digital platforms for text processing and display. The character is commonly encountered in Japanese language texts and is supported in all major character encoding systems, including UTF-8 and Shift JIS.

General Properties

Code Point U+30B2
Version Added 1.1
Name Katakana Letter Ge
Block Katakana
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ケ" U+30B1 Katakana Letter Ke
"゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ゲ
HTML Hex Encoding ゲ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x82 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x30B2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000030B2
C/C++/Java Escape \u30b2

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