U+30BE "ゾ" Katakana Letter Zo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ゾ
U+30BE "ゾ" Katakana Letter Zo is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "zo." It is formed by adding a dakuten, a pair of small strokes, to the base character "ソ" (so), which changes its unvoiced "s" sound to the voiced "z" sound. This character is used in writing Japanese words of foreign origin, onomatopoeia, and technical terms, such as in "ゾーン" (zoon, meaning "zone") or the name "ゾロ" (Zoro). As part of the standard Unicode encoding, it supports digital text representation and processing across languages and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30BE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Zo |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ソ" U+30BD Katakana Letter So "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ゾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ゾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x82 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30BE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030BE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30be |
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 |