U+30E1 "メ" Katakana Letter Me Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
メ
U+30E1 "メ" Katakana Letter Me is a character used in the Japanese writing system, specifically as one of the basic katakana symbols, representing the syllable "me." It is derived from the kanji "女" (woman) and is primarily employed to write foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and scientific terms where hiragana might be used for native Japanese words. In modern Japanese, "メ" also appears in stylistic contexts such as advertising and manga, and it serves as a visually distinct counterpart to its hiragana equivalent "め."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30E1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Me |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | メ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | メ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30E1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30e1 |