U+3065 "づ" Hiragana Letter Du Unicode Character

U+3065 "づ" Hiragana Letter Du is a syllabic character from the Japanese hiragana writing system, representing the mora /du/, though in modern standard Japanese pronunciation it is typically realized as /zu/, identical to the sound of its counterpart ず (U+305A). It is used in native Japanese words and grammatical forms, most notably as the voiced variant of the hiragana character つ (tsu), indicated by the addition of a dakuten diacritic mark. This character appears in various common words, such as つづく (tsuzuku, meaning "to continue"), and plays a key role in differentiating meanings and tenses in Japanese text.