U+30BB "セ" Katakana Letter Se Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
セ
U+30BB "セ" Katakana Letter Se is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary representing the syllable "se," pronounced like the English word "say" but with a shorter vowel sound. It is one of the 48 basic katakana characters and is derived from a simplified portion of the kanji "世" (world, generation), used in modern Japanese primarily for writing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and phonetic transcriptions of names. In computer encoding, it belongs to the Katakana block of the Unicode standard and is commonly employed in digital text alongside its hiragana counterpart, "せ," from which it differs in its more angular and block-like visual form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30BB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Se |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | セ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | セ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30BB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030BB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30bb |