U+30D5 "フ" Katakana Letter Hu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
フ
U+30D5 "フ" Katakana Letter Hu is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary that represents the syllable "fu" despite its official name using "Hu," a historical transliteration of the Japanese labiodental sound. It is part of the Katakana block and is used primarily to write loanwords, foreign names, onomatopoeia, and for emphasis in Japanese text. In modern Japanese, "フ" is typically pronounced as an unvoiced bilabial fricative, similar to "fu" in English, and it forms the basis for other combined katakana characters like "ファ" (fa), "フィ" (fi), "フェ" (fe), and "フォ" (fo) when used with small vowel marks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30D5 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Hu |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | フ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | フ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30D5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30d5 |