Encoding Table
This table shows the exact bytes used to represent KATAKANA LETTER KA 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 82 AB | 227 130 171 | 3 |
| UTF-16 LE | AB 30 | 171 48 | 2 |
| UTF-16 BE | 30 AB | 48 171 | 2 |
| UTF-32 LE | AB 30 00 00 | 171 48 0 0 | 4 |
| UTF-32 BE | 00 00 30 AB | 0 0 48 171 | 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 | 83 4A | 131 74 | 2 |
| EUC-JP | A5 AB | 165 171 | 2 |
| GBK | A5 AB | 165 171 | 2 |
| Big5 | C7 43 | 199 67 | 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