U+30D9 Katakana Letter Be
U+30D9 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 glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Katakana Letter He, 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+30D9 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
へ, in hiragana, or ヘ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which represents one mora. The [he] sound is the only sound that is written identically in hiragana and katakana and therefore confusable according to the Unicode Standard. In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ヘ can be written as small ㇸ to represent a final [h] after an [e] sound (エㇸ [eh]).
It is usually pronounced [he] with the aspirate [h] before its vowel. It is also often used as a grammatical particle indicating direction, which makes only the vowel sound [e].
Though the two forms へ and ヘ are usually rendered with a small difference between them, in order to match better with the appearance of other hiragana or katakana characters, they can often be rendered identically. A reader is not expected to distinguish one from the other without contextual clues.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12505 |
| UTF-8 | E3 83 99 |
| UTF-16 | 30 D9 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 30 D9 |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%83%99 |
| HTML hex reference | ベ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ベ |
| Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | C7 71 |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | C7 D5 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 83 78 |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | AB D9 |
| Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | C7 71 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A5 D9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A5 D9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A5 D9 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | AB D9 |
| Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A5 D9 |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A5 D9 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A5 D9 |
| Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 25 59 7E 7D |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 59 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 59 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 59 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 59 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 59 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 25 59 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 2B 59 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DE 69 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 83 78 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 83 78 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 83 78 |
| Adobe Glyph List | bekatakana |
| digraph | Be |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| KATAKANA LETTER BE | |
| — | |
| Katakana | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| canonical | |
| Katakana Letter He Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Katakana Letter Be | |
| U |