U+30F8 "ヸ" Katakana Letter Vi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヸ
U+30F8 "ヸ" Katakana Letter Vi is a rarely used katakana character designed to represent the phonetic sound "vi" in Japanese, typically for transliterating foreign loanwords or non-native syllables. It is a combination of the base katakana character for "vu" (ヴ) with a smaller "i" (ィ) diacritic or composition element, reflecting Japanese attempts to approximate sounds not originally present in its phonetic inventory. Due to modern Japanese's preference for simpler or more common katakana combinations like ビ (bi) or ヴィ (vi) using the full-size characters, this specific character is highly uncommon in modern usage and is primarily encountered in historical or specialized linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30F8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Vi |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヰ" U+30F0 Katakana Letter Wi "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30f8 |
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 |