U+308B HIRAGANA LETTER RU

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Decimal / Nº
12427
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
wide
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+308B, officially named HIRAGANA LETTER RU, 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 not a 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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12427 Copied!
UTF-8 E3 82 8B Copied!
UTF-16 30 8B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 30 8B Copied!
URL-Quoted %E3%82%8B Copied!
HTML hex reference る Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'308B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u308B Copied!
C and C++ \u308b Copied!
C# \u308b Copied!
CSS \00308B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(12427) Copied!
Go \u308b Copied!
JavaScript \u308B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{308b} Copied!
JSON \u308B Copied!
Java \u308B Copied!
Lua \u{308B} Copied!
Matlab char(12427) Copied!
Perl \x{308B} Copied!
PHP \u{308b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\308B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{308B} Copied!
Python \u308b Copied!
Ruby \u{308b} Copied!
Rust \u{308b} Copied!