U+30BD "ソ" Katakana Letter So Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ソ
U+30BD "ソ" Katakana Letter So is a character from the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "so" and primarily used to transcribe foreign words, onomatopoeia, and technical terms. Its visual form consists of two simple strokes, resembling a tiny swooping arc above a short horizontal line, and it is distinct from the similarly shaped katakana character for "n" (ン). In digital text and computing, this character is encoded as a single Unicode scalar value in the Katakana block, enabling its consistent representation across platforms and applications for Japanese language support.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30BD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter So |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ソ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ソ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30bd |