U+3050 "ぐ" Hiragana Letter Gu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+3050 "ぐ" Hiragana Letter Gu is a Japanese hiragana syllabogram representing the sound "gu," formed by adding a dakuten (voicing mark) to the base character "く" (ku). It is part of the Hiragana block within Unicode and is used primarily in written Japanese to denote the voiced velar plosive in words like ぐるぐる (guruguru, meaning "round and round") or as a grammatical particle in contexts such as verb conjugations. The character's standard Unicode name reflects its linguistic role, and it is encoded for compatibility with digital text processing, allowing for accurate representation of Japanese scripts in modern computing environments.
General Properties
Code Point
U+3050
Name
Hiragana Letter Gu
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ぐ
HTML Hex Encoding
ぐ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x81 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding
0x3050
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00003050
C/C++/Java Escape
\u3050
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hiragana