U+30EB "" Katakana Letter Ru Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+30EB "" Katakana Letter Ru is a character in the Japanese katakana syllabary, representing the syllable "ru" as in the English word "rule." It is derived from the kanji 流 (meaning "flow") and is used primarily in modern Japanese to write foreign loanwords, onomatopoeia, and stylistic emphasis, such as in the English borrow word "ruler" written as ルーラー (rūrā). In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Katakana block and is classified as a letter with a numeric value of U+30EB, where it is encoded as a single character for digital text representation across various platforms and fonts.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ル
HTML Hex Encoding
ル
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x83 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x30EB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000030EB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u30eb