U+307B "ほ" Hiragana Letter Ho Unicode Character

U+307B "ほ" Hiragana Letter Ho is a syllabic character in the Japanese hiragana script representing the syllable "ho" and is primarily used in the Japanese writing system alongside kanji and katakana. Belonging to the hiragana block within the Unicode standard, it is encoded for digital text processing and display. Derived from the Chinese character 保 via cursive simplification during the Heian period, this character appears in a wide range of Japanese words, such as ほん (hon) meaning "book" and ほし (hoshi) meaning "star," and its stroke order involves a horizontal line followed by a curved hook and a final vertical stroke.