U+30D4 "ピ" Katakana Letter Pi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ピ
U+30D4 "ピ" Katakana Letter Pi is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary used to represent the syllable "pi." It is composed of the base katakana character "ヒ" (hi) modified with a dakuten, a diacritical mark consisting of two small strokes, which changes the unvoiced "h" sound to a voiced "p" sound. This character is part of the Unicode block labeled "Katakana," which encodes symbols used primarily for writing loanwords, onomatopoeia, and scientific terms in modern Japanese, and it is commonly found in digital text including web pages, documents, and software applications that support Japanese language input and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30D4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Pi |
| 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 "゚" U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ピ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ピ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30D4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030D4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30d4 |
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 |