U+30BC "ゼ" Katakana Letter Ze Unicode Character

U+30BC "ゼ" Katakana Letter Ze is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary that represents the syllable "ze," formed by adding a dakuten (voicing mark) to the base character セ (se). This character is used in writing loanwords, foreign names, and onomatopoeia in Japanese, often appearing in words derived from other languages such as "ゼリー" (zerī, for jelly) or "ゼロ" (zero, for zero). It is encoded in the Unicode Katakana block and is part of the standard set of characters for modern Japanese text representation.