U+304C "が" Hiragana Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+304C "が" Hiragana Letter Ga is a fundamental component of the Japanese writing system, representing the voiced syllable "ga" in the hiragana script. It is formed by adding a dakuten, a small diacritical mark resembling quotation marks, to the base character か (ka), which transforms its unvoiced sound. As part of the Japanese syllabary, this character is used extensively in native and borrowed words, often functioning as a grammatical particle to mark the subject of a sentence or to indicate possession. Identified in the Unicode Standard under the range for Hiragana characters, U+304C plays a key role in written Japanese, enabling precise phonetic expression and grammatical clarity in text.
General Properties
Code Point
U+304C
Name
Hiragana Letter Ga
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
が
HTML Hex Encoding
が
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x81 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x304C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000304C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u304c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hiragana