U+30B8 "ジ" Katakana Letter Zi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ジ
U+30B8 "ジ" Katakana Letter Zi is a character used in the Japanese writing system, specifically within the katakana syllabary, where it represents the syllable "ji" and is the voiced counterpart of the character シ (shi). It is composed of the base character シ with a dakuten diacritic mark, indicating the voiced pronunciation, and is distinct from the character チ with a dakuten, which is used for the syllable "ji" in a different context. This character is commonly employed in modern Japanese to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and technical terms, and it appears in the Unicode Standard as part of the Katakana block, which encompasses a range of characters for representing Japanese sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30B8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Zi |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "シ" U+30B7 Katakana Letter Si "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ジ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ジ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30b8 |
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 |