U+305A HIRAGANA LETTER ZU

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Decimal / Nº
12378
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
wide
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a canonical composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+305A, officially named HIRAGANA LETTER ZU, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Hiragana block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Hira script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a canonical composition and has wide in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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12378 Copied!
UTF-8 E3 81 9A Copied!
UTF-16 30 5A Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 30 5A Copied!
URL-Quoted %E3%81%9A Copied!
HTML hex reference ず Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'305A' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u305A Copied!
C and C++ \u305a Copied!
C# \u305a Copied!
CSS \00305A Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(12378) Copied!
Go \u305a Copied!
JavaScript \u305A Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{305a} Copied!
JSON \u305A Copied!
Java \u305A Copied!
Lua \u{305A} Copied!
Matlab char(12378) Copied!
Perl \x{305A} Copied!
PHP \u{305a} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\305A' Copied!
PowerShell `u{305A} Copied!
Python \u305a Copied!
Ruby \u{305a} Copied!
Rust \u{305a} Copied!