U+30B4 "ゴ" Katakana Letter Go Unicode Character

U+30B4 "ゴ" Katakana Letter Go is a character in the Japanese katakana script representing the voiced syllable "go", derived from the base katakana character "コ" (ko) with the addition of a dakuten diacritic (two small strokes) to indicate the voiced g sound. It is part of the Katakana block within the Unicode standard, positioned at code point U+30B4, and is used in modern Japanese writing primarily for transcribing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and names, such as in the word "ゴルフ" (gorufu, meaning golf). This character follows the typical katakana structure of being angular and straightforward, contrasting with the more curvy hiragana, and serves as a key component in the written representation of the Japanese language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+30B4
Version Added	1.1
Name	Katakana Letter Go
Block	Katakana
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"コ" U+30B3 Katakana Letter Ko "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ゴ
HTML Hex Encoding	ゴ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x82 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x30B4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000030B4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u30b4

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