U+30DD "ポ" Katakana Letter Po Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ポ
U+30DD "ポ" Katakana Letter Po is a Japanese katakana syllabary character representing the sound "po," formed by adding a handakuten (a small circle) to the base katakana character ホ (ho). It is primarily used in modern Japanese writing to write foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, or scientific terms, as katakana is reserved for such purposes. This character is encoded in the Unicode Katakana block and can be typed using standard Japanese input methods, serving as an essential part of the Japanese writing system alongside hiragana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30DD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Po |
| 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 "゚" U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ポ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ポ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30dd |
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 |