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Glyph for U+308F
Source: Noto CJK

U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa

U+308F 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+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
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 わ
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

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) HIRAGANA LETTER WA
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+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
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+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
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+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
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+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
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+308F Hiragana Letter Wa
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U