U+3094 "ゔ" Hiragana Letter Vu Unicode Character

U+3094 "ゔ" Hiragana Letter Vu is a relatively modern addition to the Japanese hiragana syllabary, created by combining the character for "u" (う) with a dakuten diacritic mark to represent the voiced bilabial sound /vu/ or /bɯ/. It is primarily used to transliterate foreign words, such as "ヴァイオリン" (vaiorin, violin), where it appears as the base hiragana form for the "vu" syllable, though in practice, katakana ヴ is far more common for loanwords. This character is rarely used in native Japanese writing and was introduced to standardize the representation of foreign sounds that do not naturally occur in traditional Japanese phonology.