U+30E8 "" Katakana Letter Yo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+30E8 "" 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.

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