U+30D2 "ヒ" Katakana Letter Hi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヒ
U+30D2 "ヒ" Katakana Letter Hi is a character from the Japanese katakana syllabary used primarily to write loanwords, phonetic transcriptions, and emphasis in modern Japanese. It represents the syllable "hi" and is derived from a simplified portion of the kanji 比, which it originally borrowed from. In terms of visual design, it consists of two slightly angled strokes, akin to a tilted incomplete rectangle, and it occupies a place in the standard Japanese writing system alongside other katakana characters for representing foreign sounds and names. Its Unicode code point falls within the Katakana block, making it widely supported across digital platforms for text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30D2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Hi |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30D2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030D2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30d2 |