Hiragana Letter Wa

U+308F
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal わ
Hex わ

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+308F
Decimal
12431
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 Wa.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
わ
HTML Hex
わ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E3 82 8F
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
30 8F
UTF-32 Hex
0000308F
CSS Escape
\308F
JavaScript Escape
\u308F
Python Escape
\u308F
URL Encoded
%E3%82%8F
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