U+30D9 "ベ" Katakana Letter Be Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ベ
U+30D9 "ベ" Katakana Letter Be is a syllabic character used in the Japanese writing system, specifically representing the sound "be" as one of the modified katakana forms derived from the base character "ヘ" (he) by adding a dakuten diacritic. It is employed primarily in the transcription of foreign loanwords, onomatopoeic expressions, and scientific terms, and is part of the Unicode block for Katakana, positioned at code point U+30D9. This character functions within the broader katakana script to distinguish the voiced "be" sound from its unvoiced counterpart, playing a role both in standard Japanese orthography and in digital text encoding for a wide range of international applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30D9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Be |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヘ" U+30D8 Katakana Letter He "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ベ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ベ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30d9 |
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 |