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Glyph for U+3053
Source: Noto CJK

U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko

U+3053 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+3040 to U+309F Hiragana in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hiragana script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+3053 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

, in hiragana or in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent IPA: [ko]. The shape of these kana comes from the kanji 己.

This character may be supplemented by a dakuten; it becomes ご in hiragana, ゴ in katakana and go in Hepburn romanization. Also, the pronunciation is affected, transforming into [ɡo] in initial positions and varying between [ŋo] and [ɣo] in the middle of words.

A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ko in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋo].

Representations

System Representation
12371
UTF-8 E3 81 93
UTF-16 30 53
UTF-32 00 00 30 53
URL-Quoted %E3%81%93
HTML hex reference こ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake こ
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) AA B3
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) A4 B3
Adobe Glyph List kohiragana
digraph ko

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name HIRAGANA LETTER KO
Unicode 1 Name
Block Hiragana
General Category Other Letter
Script Hiragana
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Case Folding Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other Letter
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation U