U+30B6 "ザ" Katakana Letter Za Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ザ
U+30B6 "ザ" Katakana Letter Za is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, specifically representing the voiced syllable "za" in the Japanese language. It is formed by adding a dakuten, a diacritical mark consisting of two small strokes, to the base katakana character サ (U+30B5, Sa), which changes the unvoiced "s" sound to the voiced "z" sound. This character is used primarily to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and for emphasis in Japanese text, and it occupies a standard position in Unicode's CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, encoded in UTF-8 as e3 82 b6.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30B6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Za |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "サ" U+30B5 Katakana Letter Sa "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ザ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ザ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30B6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30b6 |
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 |