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Glyph for U+30A5
Source: Noto CJK

U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U

U+30A5 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+30A0 to U+30FF Katakana in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Katakana 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. This katakana joins with other adjacent katakana to form a word. U+30A5 prohibits line breaks before its position. There are some exceptions, though.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The yōon (Japanese: 拗音 (ようおん)), also written as yōon, is a feature of the Japanese language in which a mora is formed with an added [j] sound, i.e., palatalized, or (more rarely in the modern language) with an added [w] sound, i.e. labialized.

Yōon are represented in hiragana using a kana ending in i, such as き (ki) or に (ni), plus a smaller version of one of the three y kana, ya, yu or yo. For example, kyō, "today" (今日), is written きょう [kʲoo], using a small version of the yo kana, よ. Contrast this with kiyō, "skillful" (器用), which is written きよう [kijoo], with a full-sized yo kana. In historical kana orthography, yōon were not distinguished with the smaller kana, and had to be determined by context.

In earlier stages of Japanese, and in certain dialects, yōon can also be formed with the kana wa, wi, we, and wo; for example, くゎ/クヮ kwa, く/ク kwi, く/ク kwe, く/ク kwo. Although obsolete in modern Japanese, kwa and kwi can still be found in several of the Ryukyuan languages today (e.g. Okinawan), while kwe is formed with the digraph くぇ. Kwa also appears in the Kagoshima dialect. Instead of the kana き, these are formed with the kana for ku, く/ク. Some older transliterations in English follow the earlier pronunciation, e.g. Kwaidan, Kwannon, and such yōon may appear in loanwords e.g. ムジカ・アンティクヮ・ケルン "Musica Antiqua Köln". They were also used to write Hakka in Taiwan under Japanese rule.

Representations

System Representation
12453
UTF-8 E3 82 A5
UTF-16 30 A5
UTF-32 00 00 30 A5
URL-Quoted %E3%82%A5
HTML hex reference ゥ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ã‚¥
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) C6 FC
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) C7 A1
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) 83 44
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) AB A5
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) C6 FC
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) A5 A5
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) A5 A5
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) A5 A5
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) AB A5
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) A5 A5
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) A5 A5
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) A5 A5
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) 7E 7B 25 25 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 25 25 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 25 25 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 25 25 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 25 25 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 25 25 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 25 25 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 2B 25 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) DE 35
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) 83 44
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 83 44
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 83 44
Adobe Glyph List usmallkatakana
digraph u6

Related Characters

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) KATAKANA LETTER SMALL U
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Katakana
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Katakana
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Katakana
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Conditional Japanese Starter
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+30A5 Katakana Letter Small U
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) Tu