U+30F4 "ヴ" Katakana Letter Vu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヴ
U+30F4 "ヴ" Katakana Letter Vu is a Japanese katakana character used to represent the sound "vu" in foreign loanwords and transliterations. It is formed by adding a dakuten, or voicing mark, to the standard katakana character ウ (u), which allows it to approximate the English "v" sound, a phoneme not native to traditional Japanese. This character is primarily employed in modern Japanese writing to render words from other languages, such as "ヴィクトル" for Victor or "ヴァイオリン" for violin. While its usage has increased due to globalization, it remains less common than other katakana characters and is often replaced with ブ (bu) in casual or older contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30F4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Vu |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ウ" U+30A6 Katakana Letter U "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30f4 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Katakana |
| Script Extensions | Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Katakana |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |