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Glyph for U+305D
Source: Noto CJK

U+305D Hiragana Letter So

U+305D 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 not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+305D offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

そ, in hiragana, or ソ, in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. Both represent [so]. The version of this character used by computer fonts does not match the handwritten form that most native Japanese writers use. The native way is shown here as the alternative form.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 12381
UTF-8 E3 81 9D
UTF-16 30 5D
UTF-32 00 00 30 5D
URL-Quoted %E3%81%9D
HTML hex reference そ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake そ
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) C6 C1
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) C7 44
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) 82 BB
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) AA BD
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) C6 C1
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) A4 BD
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) A4 BD
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) A4 BD
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) AA BD
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) A4 BD
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) A4 BD
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) A4 BD
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) 7E 7B 24 3D 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 24 42 24 3D 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 2A 3D 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) DD BD
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) 82 BB
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 82 BB
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 82 BB
Adobe Glyph List sohiragana
digraph so

Related Characters

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) HIRAGANA LETTER SO
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) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
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) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
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) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
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) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
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) Glyph for U+305D Hiragana Letter So
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U