U+30F3 "ン" Katakana Letter N Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+30F3 "ン" Katakana Letter N is a fundamental character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the moraic nasal sound commonly transcribed as “n” in English. It is the forty-eighth and final character in the standard katakana ordering, used to indicate a syllable-final nasal consonant in words, often found at the end of loanwords, onomatopoeia, or foreign names. Unlike other katakana characters that represent a vowel-consonant pair, "ン" stands as a standalone nasal sound, making it essential for accurately transcribing non-Japanese terms such as “コンピュータ” (konpyūta, “computer”). Its distinctive brush-like strokes and compact design reflect its role in adapting foreign sounds into Japanese phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30F3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter N |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ン |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ン |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30F3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030F3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30f3 |