U+30DF "ミ" Katakana Letter Mi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ミ
U+30DF "ミ" Katakana Letter Mi is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, used primarily to represent the syllable "mi" in the Japanese language. It is derived from a simplified form of the kanji 三, meaning "three," and is one of the 48 basic katakana characters. This character is commonly employed in modern Japanese writing for transcribing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and stylistic emphasis, often appearing in words like ミルク (miruku, "milk") or as part of compound terms in technical and pop culture contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30DF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Mi |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ミ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ミ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30DF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30df |