unicode

あ

U+3042

HIRAGANA LETTER A

HIRAGANA LETTER A · Other Letter · Hiragana · Hiragana script

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Quick facts

Code point: U+3042
Decimal: 12354
Name: HIRAGANA LETTER A
General category: Lo — Other Letter
Block: Hiragana
Script: Hiragana
Bidi class: L
Combining class: 0
Age: 1.1
Name aliases: —

Normalization & case

Decomposition: —
Uppercase: —
Lowercase: —
Titlecase: —
Case folding: —
Bidi mirrored: No

Layout & width

East Asian Width: W
Line Break: ID
Numeric: —
Script extensions: —

Binary properties

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Developer examples

JS: '\u{3042}' // U+3042
Python: "\N{HIRAGANA LETTER A}"
HTML: あ

Encodings & escapes

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Source

Unicode: 16.0.0
WHATWG: —