せ is the Unicode character HIRAGANA LETTER SE, code point U+305B (decimal 12379) in the Hiragana block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write せ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E3 81 9B.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+305B |
| Decimal | 12379 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E3 81 9B |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 305B |
| UTF-32 | 0000305B |
| HTML decimal | せ |
| HTML hex | せ |
| CSS | \305B |
| JavaScript | \u305B |
| JSON | \u305B |
| Python | \u305B |
| Python by name | \N{HIRAGANA LETTER SE} |
| Java, C# | \u305B |
| Rust, Swift | \u{305B} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u305B |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E3%81%9B |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | HIRAGANA LETTER SE |
| Code point | U+305B (decimal 12379) |
| Block | Hiragana (U+3040–U+309F) |
| General category | Lo: Other letter |
| Script | Hiragana |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Nearby in Hiragana
- こ U+3053 Hiragana Letter Ko
- ご U+3054 Hiragana Letter Go
- さ U+3055 Hiragana Letter Sa
- ざ U+3056 Hiragana Letter Za
- し U+3057 Hiragana Letter Si
- じ U+3058 Hiragana Letter Zi
- す U+3059 Hiragana Letter Su
- ず U+305A Hiragana Letter Zu
- ぜ U+305C Hiragana Letter Ze
- そ U+305D Hiragana Letter So
- ぞ U+305E Hiragana Letter Zo
- た U+305F Hiragana Letter Ta
- だ U+3060 Hiragana Letter Da
- ち U+3061 Hiragana Letter Ti
- ぢ U+3062 Hiragana Letter Di
- っ U+3063 Hiragana Letter Small Tu
All 93 characters: Hiragana.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for せ?
- Use せ (decimal) or せ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+305B?
- E3 81 9B (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E3%81%9B.
- How do I write U+305B in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u305B. Python: \u305B.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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