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+305D offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
そ, in hiragana, or ソ, in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent [so]. The version of this character used by computer fonts does not match the handwritten form that most native Japanese writers use. The native way is shown here as the alternative form.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
12381
UTF-8
E3 81 9D
UTF-16
30 5D
UTF-32
00 00 30 5D
URL-Quoted
%E3%81%9D
HTML hex reference
そ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
ã
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes)
C6 C1
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
C7 44
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes)
82 BB
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes)
AA BD
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes)
C6 C1
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes)
A4 BD
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
A4 BD
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
A4 BD
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes)
AA BD
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)
A4 BD
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)
A4 BD
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
A4 BD
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)
7E 7B 24 3D 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes)
1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes)
1B 24 29 43 0E 2A 3D 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes)
DD BD
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes)
82 BB
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes)
82 BB
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes)
82 BB
Adobe Glyph List
sohiragana
digraph
so
RFC 5137
\u'305D'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u305D
C and C++
\u305D
C#
\u305D
CSS
\00305D
Excel
=UNICHAR(12381)
Go
\u305D
JavaScript
\u305D
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{305d}
JSON
\u305D
Java
\u305D
Lua
\u{305D}
Matlab
char(12381)
Perl
"\x{305D}"
PHP
\u{305d}
PostgreSQL
U&'\305D'
PowerShell
`u{305D}
Python
\u305D
Ruby
\u{305d}
Rust
\u{305d}
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