U+30B6 "ザ" Katakana Letter Za Unicode Character

U+30B6 "ザ" Katakana Letter Za is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, specifically representing the voiced syllable "za" in the Japanese language. It is formed by adding a dakuten, a diacritical mark consisting of two small strokes, to the base katakana character サ (U+30B5, Sa), which changes the unvoiced "s" sound to the voiced "z" sound. This character is used primarily to transcribe foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and for emphasis in Japanese text, and it occupies a standard position in Unicode's CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) block, encoded in UTF-8 as e3 82 b6.