U+30C7 "デ" Katakana Letter De Unicode Character

U+30C7 "デ" Katakana Letter De is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "de," which is the voiced counterpart of the syllable "te" (テ). It is composed of the base katakana character テ with the addition of a dakuten diacritic, two small strokes that indicate voicing. This character is primarily used in the Japanese writing system to write loanwords, foreign names, onomatopoeia, and for emphasis in text, filling a role similar to hiragana for representing vocalized sounds.

General Properties

Code Point	U+30C7
Version Added	1.1
Name	Katakana Letter De
Block	Katakana
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"テ" U+30C6 Katakana Letter Te "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	デ
HTML Hex Encoding	デ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x83 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x30C7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000030C7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u30c7

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