Source: Noto CJK

U+3056 Hiragana Letter Za

U+3056 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+3040 to U+309F Hiragana in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hiragana script.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Hiragana Letter Sa, 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. U+3056 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Sa (hiragana: さ, katakana: サ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [sa]. The shapes of these kana originate from 左 and 散, respectively.
Like き, the hiragana character may be written with or without linking the lower line to the rest of the character.
The character may be combined with a dakuten, changing it into ざ in hiragana, ザ in katakana, and za in Hepburn romanization. The pronunciation is also changed, to [za].

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	12374
UTF-8	E3 81 96
UTF-16	30 56
UTF-32	00 00 30 56
URL-Quoted	%E3%81%96
HTML hex reference	ざ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ã–
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes)	AA B6
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes)	A4 B6
Adobe Glyph List	zahiragana
digraph	za

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	HIRAGANA LETTER ZA
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Hiragana
General Category (gc)	Other Letter
Script (sc)	Hiragana
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Hiragana Letter Sa Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Hiragana Letter Za
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Hiragana Letter Za
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Hiragana Letter Za
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Hiragana Letter Za
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Hiragana Letter Za
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Hiragana Letter Za
Case Folding (cf)	Hiragana Letter Za
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Hiragana Letter Za
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Hiragana Letter Za
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Hiragana Letter Za
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✔
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Hiragana Letter Za
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Hiragana Letter Za
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U