U+30DA "ペ" Katakana Letter Pe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ペ
U+30DA "ペ" Katakana Letter Pe is a character used in the Japanese writing system, specifically representing the syllable "pe" within the katakana script, which is primarily employed for foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and emphasis. This character is derived from the basic katakana character "ヘ" (he) with the addition of a dakuten, a diacritical mark consisting of two small strokes, which changes the pronunciation from the unvoiced "he" to the voiced "pe." It is encoded in Unicode’s Katakana block and plays a functional role in modern Japanese text, appearing in words like "ペン" (pen) or "ペット" (pet).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30DA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Pe |
| 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 "゚" U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ペ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ペ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30DA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030DA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30da |
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 |