U+30CB "ニ" Katakana Letter Ni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ニ
U+30CB "ニ" Katakana Letter Ni is a character from the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "ni" pronounced similarly to the English word "knee." It is one of the 46 basic katakana characters used primarily in Japanese writing for transcribing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific terms, and for emphasis in advertising or signage. The shape of the character is simple, consisting of two horizontal strokes that resemble the digit "2" on its side, and it corresponds to the hiragana character "に." In Unicode, it is encoded in the Katakana block (U+30A0 to U+30FF), and its standard usage follows the Japanese writing system's conventions for phonetic transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30CB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ni |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ニ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ニ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30CB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030CB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30cb |