U+31F4 "ㇴ" Katakana Letter Small Nu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+31F4 "ㇴ" Katakana Letter Small Nu is a small-form variant of the standard katakana character ヌ (nu), used primarily in the Japanese writing system to specify pronunciation or to represent a contracted sound within a word. Unlike its full-sized counterpart, this small version is not typically used as a standalone syllable but appears as a specialized diacritic-like element, often in linguistic or phonetic contexts, to indicate a reduced or devoiced vowel in certain compound kana or transliterations of foreign words. It is part of the Katakana Phonetic Extensions block in Unicode, which was introduced to support such nuanced orthographic distinctions in modern Japanese text processing and scholarly work.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31F4 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Small Nu |
| Block | Katakana Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㇴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㇴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x87 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31f4 |