U+30B9 "ス" Katakana Letter Su Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ス
U+30B9 "ス" Katakana Letter Su is a syllabic script character used primarily in the Japanese writing system to represent the sound "su". As a fundamental component of katakana, one of Japan's two kana syllabaries, it is employed for writing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific terms, and for emphasis in text. Visually, the character resembles a stylized, angular version of its hiragana counterpart "す", and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Katakana block, where it serves as a crucial element for digital text representation and processing of the Japanese language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30B9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Su |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ス |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ス |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30b9 |