U+30E6 "ユ" Katakana Letter Yu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ユ
U+30E6 "ユ" Katakana Letter Yu is a symbol used in the Japanese writing system to represent the syllable "yu," as part of the katakana syllabary primarily employed for foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, technical terms, and emphasis. Its form is derived from a simplified portion of the kanji character 由, and it is frequently combined with a small version of another katakana vowel or consonant to form a palatalized or contracted sound, such as in "シュ" (shu) or "ニュ" (nyu). As a basic phonetic unit, it plays a crucial role in Japanese text, enabling the precise transcription of sounds from other languages into a standardized Japanese orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30E6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Yu |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ユ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ユ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30E6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030E6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30e6 |