U+30CD "ネ" Katakana Letter Ne Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ネ
U+30CD "ネ" Katakana Letter Ne is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary that represents the syllable "ne," corresponding to the hiragana character ね and originating from a simplified form of the kanji 祢 (or another similar radical). It is used primarily in modern Japanese for writing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific terms, and for emphasis in text, often appearing in words like ネクタイ (nekutai, meaning necktie) or ネコ (neko, meaning cat). In Unicode, it is part of the Katakana block, with a standard typographic form featuring two strokes that create a distinctive zigzag shape.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30CD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ne |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ネ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ネ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30cd |