U+30E8 "ヨ" Katakana Letter Yo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

ヨ
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+30E8 "ヨ" Katakana Letter Yo is a character used in the Japanese writing system, specifically as a katakana symbol representing the syllable "yo." It is derived from the Chinese character for "and" or to mean "again," though its phonetic usage is distinct as a basic unit in the Japanese language when writing foreign words, loanwords, or for emphasis. In its shape, "ヨ" resembles three horizontal strokes stacked with a slight leftward curve, making it visually similar to the uppercase letter "E" but rotated. This character is part of the standard katakana block in Unicode for Japanese text processing.

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Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ヨ
HTML Hex Encoding
ヨ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x83 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x30E8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000030E8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u30e8