U+30BA "ズ" Katakana Letter Zu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ズ
U+30BA "ズ" Katakana Letter Zu is a phonetic symbol used in the Japanese writing system to represent the syllable "zu," which is the voiced counterpart of the character "ス" (su). It is a single stroke, water-based character in the katakana syllabary, primarily employed to transcribe foreign loanwords, scientific terms, and onomatopoeia where the voiced "z" sound is needed. This character is part of the Japanese block within Unicode and is encoded in UTF-8 as the bytes E3 82 BA. Its visual design features a sweeping downward curve on the left and a shorter, angled mark on the right, distinct from the hiragana equivalent "ず" in both form and typical usage contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30BA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Zu |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ス" U+30B9 Katakana Letter Su "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ズ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ズ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30ba |
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 |