U+30D8 "ヘ" Katakana Letter He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヘ
U+30D8 "ヘ" Katakana Letter He is a phonetic symbol used in the Japanese writing system, representing the syllable "he" as in the English "head." It belongs to the katakana syllabary, which is primarily employed for foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, technical terms, and emphasis in Japanese text. The character's shape is derived from the kanji 部, and its stroke order consists of a single curved line that resembles a downward chevron or an inverted "V." In the Unicode standard, it resides in the Katakana block, which contains the complete set of modern katakana characters along with historical and supplementary variants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30D8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter He |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30d8 |