U+305C

HIRAGANA LETTER ZE

Lo — Other Letter
Hiragana
Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)
12380

Encoding Table

This table shows the exact bytes used to represent HIRAGANA LETTER ZE 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 9C 227 129 156 3
UTF-16 LE 5C 30 92 48 2
UTF-16 BE 30 5C 48 92 2
UTF-32 LE 5C 30 00 00 92 48 0 0 4
UTF-32 BE 00 00 30 5C 0 0 48 92 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 BA 130 186 2
EUC-JP A4 BC 164 188 2
GBK A4 BC 164 188 2
Big5 C6 C0 198 192 2

Escape Sequences

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

none
ぜ
ぜ
\305C
\u305C
%E3%81%9C
\u305c
12380

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

Unicode Properties

Introduced in Unicode 1.1
L — Left-to-Right

Canonical decomposition — this character is equivalent to the sequence below under NFC/NFD normalization.

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