U+30D6 "ブ" Katakana Letter Bu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ブ
U+30D6 "ブ" Katakana Letter Bu is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "bu." It is composed of the base character U+30D5 "フ" (fu) combined with a voiced sound mark (dakuten), which transforms the voiceless "fu" into the voiced "bu." This character is used in modern Japanese writing primarily for foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, technical terms, and emphasis, as katakana is distinct from the hiragana script. In Unicode, it resides in the Katakana block (U+30A0 to U+30FF) and serves as a standard digital representation for this syllable across various systems and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30D6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Bu |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "フ" U+30D5 Katakana Letter Hu "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ブ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ブ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30D6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030D6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30d6 |
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 |