U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
U+308F was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
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+308F offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
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. The combination of a W-column kana letter with わ゙ in hiragana was introduced to represent [va] in the 19th century and 20th century. 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 digraph ヴァ.
The kana は (ha) is read as “wa” when it represents a particle.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 12431 |
UTF-8 | E3 82 8F |
UTF-16 | 30 8F |
UTF-32 | 00 00 30 8F |
URL-Quoted | %E3%82%8F |
HTML hex reference | わ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ã‚ |
Encoding: BIG5 (hex bytes) | C6 F3 |
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | C7 76 |
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 82 ED |
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | AA EF |
Encoding: CP950 (hex bytes) | C6 F3 |
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A4 EF |
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A4 EF |
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A4 EF |
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | AA EF |
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes) | A4 EF |
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A4 EF |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A4 EF |
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes) | 7E 7B 24 6F 7E 7D |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 6F 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 6F 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 6F 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 6F 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 6F 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 24 6F 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 2A 6F 0F |
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | DD EF |
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 82 ED |
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 82 ED |
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 82 ED |
Adobe Glyph List | wahiragana |
digraph | wa |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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