U+30B0 "グ" Katakana Letter Gu Unicode Character

U+30B0 "グ" Katakana Letter Gu is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, specifically representing the voiced syllable "gu," formed by adding a dakuten (a diacritic mark resembling quotation marks) to the base katakana character ク (ku). It is used primarily in the Japanese writing system to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and scientific terms, and appears in common words such as ゲーム (geemu, game) or グーグル (Guuguru, Google). The character’s shape is angular and minimal, reflecting katakana’s origins as a simplified script derived from Chinese characters for Buddhist textual annotation.