U+30E8 "ヨ" Katakana Letter Yo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヨ
U+30E8 "ヨ" Katakana Letter Yo is a character used in the Japanese writing system, specifically as a katakana symbol representing the syllable "yo." It is derived from the Chinese character for "and" or to mean "again," though its phonetic usage is distinct as a basic unit in the Japanese language when writing foreign words, loanwords, or for emphasis. In its shape, "ヨ" resembles three horizontal strokes stacked with a slight leftward curve, making it visually similar to the uppercase letter "E" but rotated. This character is part of the standard katakana block in Unicode for Japanese text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30E8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Yo |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30e8 |