U+30C8 "ト" Katakana Letter To Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ト
U+30C8 "ト" Katakana Letter To is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, used primarily to represent the syllable "to" in modern Japanese writing. It is derived from a simplified form of the kanji "止" (meaning "stop," "halt," or "cease"), from which its shape and phonetic value originate. This character is typically employed to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and technical terms, and it also appears in the Ainu language writing system. In Unicode, it is classified under the Katakana block, which contains characters for representing Japanese words alongside hiragana, and it has a standardized width of fullwidth or halfwidth depending on the typographic context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30C8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter To |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ト |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ト |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30c8 |