U+30D0 "バ" Katakana Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
バ
U+30D0 "バ" Katakana Letter Ba is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "ba" and formed by adding a dakuten (two small strokes) to the base character "ハ" (ha). It is used primarily in modern Japanese writing for foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, technical terms, and emphasis, appearing in words like "バナナ" (banana) or "バス" (bus). As part of the Unicode standard, it is encoded in the Katakana block, occupying the code point U+30D0, and is distinct from its hiragana counterpart "ば" (U+3070).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30D0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ba |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ハ" U+30CF Katakana Letter Ha "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | バ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | バ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30D0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030D0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30d0 |
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 |