U+30BA "ズ" Katakana Letter Zu Unicode Character

U+30BA "ズ" Katakana Letter Zu is a phonetic symbol used in the Japanese writing system to represent the syllable "zu," which is the voiced counterpart of the character "ス" (su). It is a single stroke, water-based character in the katakana syllabary, primarily employed to transcribe foreign loanwords, scientific terms, and onomatopoeia where the voiced "z" sound is needed. This character is part of the Japanese block within Unicode and is encoded in UTF-8 as the bytes E3 82 BA. Its visual design features a sweeping downward curve on the left and a shorter, angled mark on the right, distinct from the hiragana equivalent "ず" in both form and typical usage contexts.