U+30BC "ゼ" Katakana Letter Ze Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ゼ
U+30BC "ゼ" Katakana Letter Ze is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary that represents the syllable "ze," formed by adding a dakuten (voicing mark) to the base character セ (se). This character is used in writing loanwords, foreign names, and onomatopoeia in Japanese, often appearing in words derived from other languages such as "ゼリー" (zerī, for jelly) or "ゼロ" (zero, for zero). It is encoded in the Unicode Katakana block and is part of the standard set of characters for modern Japanese text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30BC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ze |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "セ" U+30BB Katakana Letter Se "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ゼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ゼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30bc |
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 |