U+30DE "マ" Katakana Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
マ
U+30DE "マ" Katakana Letter Ma is a syllabic script character used in the Japanese writing system, specifically within the katakana syllabary, which is primarily employed for writing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and technical terms. This character represents the sound "ma" and is derived from a simplified form of the kanji 末 (meaning "end" or "tip"), reflecting the historical development of katakana from abbreviated Chinese characters used in Buddhist texts. It is encoded in the Unicode standard under the block named "Katakana" and is commonly used in modern Japanese alongside hiragana and kanji.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30DE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ma |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | マ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | マ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30de |