U+30F7 "ヷ" Katakana Letter Va Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヷ
U+30F7 "ヷ" Katakana Letter Va is a relatively rare character in the Japanese writing system, representing a voiced bilabial sound that is not native to standard Japanese phonology. It is constructed by adding a handakuten (a small circle diacritic) to the katakana character for "ha" (ハ), which creates the "va" sound, primarily used to transcribe foreign words or loanwords from languages like English or Russian. This character is part of the extended katakana block used for representing non-Japanese phonetic elements, and it functions similarly to the hiragana counterpart "ゔぁ" in written Japanese, though it is less commonly encountered in everyday text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30F7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Va |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ワ" U+30EF Katakana Letter Wa "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30f7 |
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 |