U+30CC "ヌ" Katakana Letter Nu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヌ
U+30CC "ヌ" Katakana Letter Nu is a character from the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "nu" and derived from the simplified form of the kanji 奴. It is used primarily in modern Japanese writing to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and technical terms, as well as for emphasis in native words. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Katakana block and resides within the range of characters designed to support Japanese text processing, with a visual appearance consisting of two strokes that create a distinctive angular shape.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30CC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Nu |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30CC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030CC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30cc |