Hiragana Letter So

U+305D
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal そ
Hex そ

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+305D
Decimal
12381
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 So.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
そ
HTML Hex
そ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E3 81 9D
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
30 5D
UTF-32 Hex
0000305D
CSS Escape
\305D
JavaScript Escape
\u305D
Python Escape
\u305D
URL Encoded
%E3%81%9D
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Characters That Include This

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