ぶ is the Unicode character HIRAGANA LETTER BU, code point U+3076 (decimal 12406) in the Hiragana block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ぶ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E3 81 B6.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+3076 |
| Decimal | 12406 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E3 81 B6 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 3076 |
| UTF-32 | 00003076 |
| HTML decimal | ぶ |
| HTML hex | ぶ |
| CSS | \3076 |
| JavaScript | \u3076 |
| JSON | \u3076 |
| Python | \u3076 |
| Python by name | \N{HIRAGANA LETTER BU} |
| Java, C# | \u3076 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{3076} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u3076 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E3%81%B6 |
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 BU |
| Code point | U+3076 (decimal 12406) |
| 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 |
Decomposition
HIRAGANA LETTER BU is canonically equivalent to the sequence below. Normalising text to NFD splits it into these parts; NFC joins them back into U+3076. Search and comparison should normalise first, or the two spellings will not match.
Nearby in Hiragana
- の U+306E Hiragana Letter No
- は U+306F Hiragana Letter Ha
- ば U+3070 Hiragana Letter Ba
- ぱ U+3071 Hiragana Letter Pa
- ひ U+3072 Hiragana Letter Hi
- び U+3073 Hiragana Letter Bi
- ぴ U+3074 Hiragana Letter Pi
- ふ U+3075 Hiragana Letter Hu
- ぷ U+3077 Hiragana Letter Pu
- へ U+3078 Hiragana Letter He
- べ U+3079 Hiragana Letter Be
- ぺ U+307A Hiragana Letter Pe
- ほ U+307B Hiragana Letter Ho
- ぼ U+307C Hiragana Letter Bo
- ぽ U+307D Hiragana Letter Po
- ま U+307E Hiragana Letter Ma
All 93 characters: Hiragana.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ぶ?
- Use ぶ (decimal) or ぶ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+3076?
- E3 81 B6 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E3%81%B6.
- How do I write U+3076 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u3076. Python: \u3076.
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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