U+305C "ぜ" Hiragana Letter Ze Unicode Character

U+305C "ぜ" Hiragana Letter Ze is a character in the Japanese syllabary that represents the sound "ze," formed by adding a dakuten (voicing mark) to the hiragana character せ (se). It is part of the hiragana block in Unicode, which is used prominently in modern Japanese writing for native words, grammatical particles, and verb endings. This character corresponds to the katakana equivalent ゼ (U+30BC) and is historically derived from the cursive style of the Chinese character 世. In everyday use, ぜ appears in words like ぜんぶ (zenbu, meaning "all") and かぜ (kaze, meaning "wind" or "cold"), and it also frequently serves as a casual sentence-ending particle to assert emphasis or familiarity in informal speech.