U+30D1 "パ" Katakana Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
パ
U+30D1 "パ" Katakana Letter Pa is a Japanese katakana character used in the modern writing system of the Japanese language. It represents the syllable "pa" and is formed by adding a handakuten diacritic, a small circle, to the base character for "ha" (ハ). This character is commonly employed in the transcription of foreign loanwords, onomatopoeic expressions, and scientific terminology, extending its usage beyond native Japanese words to accommodate sounds not originally present in the language. It belongs to the Katakana block within the Unicode standard and holds the code point U+30D1, ensuring consistent digital representation across different platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30D1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Pa |
| 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 "゚" U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | パ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | パ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30D1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030D1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30d1 |
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 |