U+305B

HIRAGANA LETTER SE

Lo — Other Letter
Hiragana
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
12379

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent HIRAGANA LETTER SE in each encoding. Unicode encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) support every character; legacy encodings only cover a limited character set and show "not supported" when a character falls outside their range.

Encoding Bytes (Hex) Bytes (Decimal) Byte count
UTF-8 E3 81 9B 227 129 155 3
UTF-16 LE 5B 30 91 48 2
UTF-16 BE 30 5B 48 91 2
UTF-32 LE 5B 30 00 00 91 48 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 30 5B 0 0 48 91 4
ASCII not supported
Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) not supported
Windows-1252 not supported
ISO-8859-2 (Latin-2) not supported
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic) not supported
KOI8-R not supported
Shift-JIS 82 B9 130 185 2
EUC-JP A4 BB 164 187 2
GBK A4 BB 164 187 2
Big5 C6 BF 198 191 2

Escape Sequences

How to reference this character in source code, markup, and URLs.

none
せ
せ
\305B
\u305B
%E3%81%9B
\u305b
12379

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UTF-8 Binary Breakdown

UTF-8 encodes this character as 3 bytes. The leading 1110 prefix on byte 1 signals a 3-byte sequence. Bytes 2 and 3 begin with 10 to mark them as continuation bytes.

Byte 1
1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1
E3
·
Byte 2
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
81
·
Byte 3
1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1
9B
UTF-8: E3 81 9B · 3 bytes · Codepoint U+305B

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right

Nearby Characters in Hiragana