U+30EF Katakana Letter Wa
U+30EF was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Katakana script.
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+30EF behaves as Ideographic 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:
Wa (hiragana: わ, katakana: ワ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. It represents [wa] and has origins in the character 和. There is also a small ゎ/ヮ, that is used to write the morae /kwa/ and /gwa/ (くゎ, ぐゎ), which are almost obsolete in contemporary standard Japanese but still exist in the Ryukyuan languages. A few loanword such as シークヮーサー(shiikwaasa from Okinawan language) and ムジカ・アンティクヮ・ケルン (Musica Antiqua Köln, German early music group) contains this letter in Japanese. Katakana ワ is also sometimes written with dakuten, ヷ, to represent a /va/ sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to write this. It is far more common to represent the /va/ sound with the combination ヴァ.
The kana は (ha) is read as “wa” when it represents a particle.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 12527 |
UTF-8 | E3 83 AF |
UTF-16 | 30 EF |
UTF-32 | 00 00 30 EF |
URL-Quoted | %E3%83%AF |
HTML hex reference | ワ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ワ |
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | AB EF |
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A5 EF |
Adobe Glyph List | wakatakana |
digraph | Wa |
Related Characters
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
KATAKANA LETTER WA | |
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Left To Right | |
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Any | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
Yes | |
✘ | |
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Other Letter | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Katakana | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Wide | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Ideographic | |
None | |
not a number | |
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