U+30C3 "ッ" Katakana Letter Small Tu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ッ
U+30C3 "ッ" Katakana Letter Small Tu is a typographic symbol from the Japanese katakana syllabary used primarily to indicate a geminate or double consonant in the pronunciation of a word. This small form of the standard katakana character "ツ" (tsu) is not pronounced as a syllable itself but instead signals that the following consonant sound should be lengthened or enunciated with a brief pause, such as in the word "マッチ" (matchi) for "match". It is a fundamental component of Japanese orthography, appearing in loanwords, onomatopoeia, and emphatic speech to convey a sharp, clipped phonetic effect.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30C3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Small Tu |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ッ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ッ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30C3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030C3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30c3 |