U+30D3 "ビ" Katakana Letter Bi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ビ
U+30D3 "ビ" Katakana Letter Bi is a character used in the Japanese writing system to represent the syllable "bi," formed by adding a dakuten, a diacritical mark resembling quotation marks, to the basic katakana character "ヒ" (hi). It belongs to the Katakana block of Unicode, which contains characters primarily employed for writing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and emphasis in Japanese text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30D3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Bi |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヒ" U+30D2 Katakana Letter Hi "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ビ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ビ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30D3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030D3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30d3 |
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 |