U+30EB "ル" Katakana Letter Ru Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+30EB "ル" Katakana Letter Ru is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "ru" as in the English word "rule." It is derived from the kanji 流 (meaning "flow") and is used primarily in modern Japanese to write foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and stylistic emphasis, such as in the English borrow word "ruler" written as ルーラー (rūrā). In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Katakana block and is classified as a letter with a numeric value of U+30EB, where it is encoded as a single character for digital text representation across various platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30EB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ru |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ル |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ル |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30eb |