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Source: Noto CJK

U+30C3 Katakana Letter Small Tu

U+30C3 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 character is also known as SMALL TSU.

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+30C3 behaves as Conditional Japanese Starter regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Katakana for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The sokuon (促音) is a Japanese symbol in the form of a small hiragana or katakana tsu. In less formal language it is called chiisai tsu (小さいつ) or chiisana tsu (小さなつ), meaning "small tsu". It serves multiple purposes in Japanese writing.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	12483
UTF-8	E3 83 83
UTF-16	30 C3
UTF-32	00 00 30 C3
URL-Quoted	%E3%83%83
HTML hex reference	ッ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ãƒƒ
alias	SMALL TSU
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes)	AB C3
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes)	A5 C3
Adobe Glyph List	tusmallkatakana
digraph	TU

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TU
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Katakana
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Katakana
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Katakana Letter Small Tu
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Katakana Letter Small Tu
Lowercase Mapping	Katakana Letter Small Tu
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Katakana Letter Small Tu
Uppercase Mapping	Katakana Letter Small Tu
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Katakana Letter Small Tu
Titlecase Mapping	Katakana Letter Small Tu
Case Folding	Katakana Letter Small Tu
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	Katakana Letter Small Tu
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✘
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	Katakana Letter Small Tu
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
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	Katakana
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Katakana Letter Small Tu
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	Conditional Japanese Starter
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	Katakana Letter Small Tu
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	Tu