U+304F Hiragana Letter Ku
U+304F was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Hiragana in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hiragana script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+304F offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
く, in hiragana or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [kɯ] and their shapes come from the kanji 久.
This kana may have a dakuten added, transforming it into ぐ in hiragana, グ in katakana and gu in Hepburn romanization. The dakuten's addition also changes the sound of the mora represented, to [ɡɯ] in initial positions and varying between [ŋɯ] and [ɣɯ] in the middle of words.
A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ku in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋɯ].
In the Ainu language, the katakana ク can be written as small ㇰ, representing a final k sound as in アイヌイタㇰ Ainu itak (Ainu language). This was developed along with other extended katakana to represent sounds in Ainu that are not found in standard Japanese katakana.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12367 |
| UTF-8 | E3 81 8F |
| UTF-16 | 30 4F |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 30 4F |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%81%8F |
| HTML hex reference | く |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ã |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | C6 B3 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | C6 F5 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 82 AD |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | AA AF |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | C6 B3 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A4 AF |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A4 AF |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A4 AF |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | AA AF |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A4 AF |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A4 AF |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A4 AF |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 24 2F 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 2F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 2F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 2F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 2F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 2F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 2F 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 2A 2F 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DD AF |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 82 AD |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 82 AD |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 82 AD |
| Adobe Glyph List | kuhiragana |
| digraph | ku |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HIRAGANA LETTER KU | |
| — | |
| Hiragana | |
| Other Letter | |
| Hiragana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| Yes | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| Yes | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Hiragana Letter Ku | |
| U |