U+30B8 Katakana Letter Zi
U+30B8 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Katakana in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Katakana script. The character is also known as JI (not unique).
The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Katakana Letter Si, Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark. 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+30B8 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
し, in hiragana, or シ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent the phonemes /si/, reflected in the Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization si, although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [ɕi] , which is reflected in the Hepburn romanization shi. The shapes of these kana have origins in the character 之. The katakana form has become increasingly popular as an emoticon in the Western world due to its resemblance to a smiling face.
This character may be combined with a dakuten, forming じ in hiragana, ジ in katakana, and ji in Hepburn romanization; the pronunciation becomes /zi/ (phonetically [d͡ʑi] or [ʑi] in the middle of words).
The dakuten form of this character is used when transliterating "di" occasionally, as opposed to チ's dakuten form, or a de assigned to a small i; for example, Aladdin is written as アラジン Arajin, and radio is written as ラジオ.
In the Ainu language, シ is used to represent the ʃi sound. It can also be written as a small ㇱ to represent a final s sound, pronounced ɕ.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12472 |
| UTF-8 | E3 82 B8 |
| UTF-16 | 30 B8 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 30 B8 |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%82%B8 |
| HTML hex reference | ジ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ジ |
| alias | JI (not unique) |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | C7 50 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | C7 B4 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 83 57 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | AB B8 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | C7 50 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A5 B8 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A5 B8 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A5 B8 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | AB B8 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A5 B8 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A5 B8 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A5 B8 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 25 38 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 38 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 38 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 38 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 38 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 38 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 38 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 2B 38 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DE 48 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 83 57 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 83 57 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 83 57 |
| Adobe Glyph List | zikatakana |
| digraph | Zi |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| KATAKANA LETTER ZI | |
| — | |
| Katakana | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| canonical | |
| Katakana Letter Si Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Katakana Letter Zi | |
| U |