Katakana Letter Gi

U+30AE
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ギ
Hex ギ

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+30AE
Decimal
12462
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Script
Katakana
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 — Katakana Letter Gi.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ギ
HTML Hex
ギ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E3 82 AE
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
30 AE
UTF-32 Hex
000030AE
CSS Escape
\30AE
JavaScript Escape
\u30AE
Python Escape
\u30AE
URL Encoded
%E3%82%AE
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Normalization Forms

Unicode defines four normalization forms that affect how characters with diacritics, compatibility variants, and combining marks are represented. This character has a non-trivial normalization — the forms below differ from its codepoint. Mismatched normalization is the most common cause of failed string comparisons across systems.

NFC = Canonical Decomposition then Canonical Composition (preferred for storage) · NFD = Canonical Decomposition · NFKC/NFKD = Compatibility forms (fold variants like fi → fi)

Decomposition

This character can be broken down into a sequence of simpler Unicode codepoints. This is a canonical decomposition — the character and its components are semantically identical and interchangeable in NFC/NFD normalization.

Characters That Include This

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