Hiragana Letter U

U+3046
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal う
Hex う

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+3046
Decimal
12358
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Script
Hiragana
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
W Wide
Properties
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Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Hiragana Letter U.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
う
HTML Hex
う
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E3 81 86
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
30 46
UTF-32 Hex
00003046
CSS Escape
\3046
JavaScript Escape
\u3046
Python Escape
\u3046
URL Encoded
%E3%81%86
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Hiragana Letter U as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.