U+30E9 "ラ" Katakana Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ラ
U+30E9 "ラ" Katakana Letter Ra is a character from the Japanese katakana syllabary, used primarily for writing foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and phonetic transcriptions. It represents the sound "ra" and is one of the 48 basic katakana characters derived from the Chinese character 良, which has been simplified over centuries into its present form. In modern Japanese, "ラ" is commonly found in words like "ラーメン" (ramen) and "ラジオ" (rajio, meaning radio). Its position in the Unicode standard at code point U+30E9 ensures consistent encoding and rendering across digital systems, making it integral to text processing for Japanese language content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30E9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ra |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ラ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ラ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30E9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030E9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30e9 |