Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent HIRAGANA LETTER SO 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 9D | 227 129 157 | 3 |
| UTF-16 LE | 5D 30 | 93 48 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 30 5D | 48 93 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | 5D 30 00 00 | 93 48 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 30 5D | 0 0 48 93 | 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 BB | 130 187 | 2 |
| EUC-JP | A4 BD | 164 189 | 2 |
| GBK | A4 BD | 164 189 | 2 |
| Big5 | C6 C1 | 198 193 | 2 |
Escape Sequences
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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.
Unicode Properties
- Unicode Version
- Introduced in Unicode 1.1
- Bidi Class
- L — Left-to-Right