U+30FA "ヺ" Katakana Letter Vo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヺ
U+30FA "ヺ" Katakana Letter Vo is a relatively rare and specialized character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the voiced sound for the katakana character "ヺ", which is a modified form of "ワ" (wa) with a dakuten (voicing mark). It is used to denote the sound "vo" in loanwords or foreign terms, though it is not a standard part of modern everyday Japanese writing and is often replaced by the sequence "ヴォ" (vu + small o) in contemporary usage. As a legacy character from the early standardization of Japanese scripts, "ヺ" appears in some historical texts, phonetic notations, or older typographic systems but is rarely encountered in modern digital communication or common language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30FA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Vo |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヲ" U+30F2 Katakana Letter Wo "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30FA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030FA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30fa |
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 |