U+30DC "ボ" Katakana Letter Bo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ボ
U+30DC "ボ" Katakana Letter Bo is a character used in the Japanese writing system, specifically as a katakana syllabary symbol representing the syllable "bo." It is composed of the base katakana character for "ho" (ホ) with the addition of a dakuten, a voicing mark that indicates the consonant sound changes from an unvoiced "h" to a voiced "b." This character is primarily employed in modern Japanese to write foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and scientific terms, as well as for emphasis in some native contexts, playing a key role in accurately representing non-Japanese sounds and nuances.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30DC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Bo |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ホ" U+30DB Katakana Letter Ho "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ボ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ボ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30dc |
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 |