U+30ED "ロ" Katakana Letter Ro Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ロ
U+30ED "ロ" Katakana Letter Ro is a character from the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the mora "ro". It is derived from the kanji 呂, which originally depicted the backbones or vertebrae, and is visually characterized by its box like shape with two short horizontal strokes inside. In modern Japanese, ロ is used primarily to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and scientific terms, such as in the word "ローマ" (Rōma) meaning Rome. It also appears as a symbol in contexts like the "ロ" notation for the sixth scale degree in music, and in the name of Rodan from the Godzilla franchise, reflecting its broad linguistic and cultural utility.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30ED |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Ro |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ロ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ロ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30ed |