へ is the Unicode character HIRAGANA LETTER HE, code point U+3078 (decimal 12408) in the Hiragana block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write へ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E3 81 B8.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+3078 |
| Decimal | 12408 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E3 81 B8 |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 3078 |
| UTF-32 | 00003078 |
| HTML decimal | へ |
| HTML hex | へ |
| CSS | \3078 |
| JavaScript | \u3078 |
| JSON | \u3078 |
| Python | \u3078 |
| Python by name | \N{HIRAGANA LETTER HE} |
| Java, C# | \u3078 |
| Rust, Swift | \u{3078} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u3078 |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E3%81%B8 |
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 HE |
| Code point | U+3078 (decimal 12408) |
| 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
- 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
- ぶ U+3076 Hiragana Letter Bu
- ぷ U+3077 Hiragana Letter Pu
- 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
- み U+307F Hiragana Letter Mi
- む U+3080 Hiragana Letter Mu
All 93 characters: Hiragana.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for へ?
- Use へ (decimal) or へ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+3078?
- E3 81 B8 (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E3%81%B8.
- How do I write U+3078 in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u3078. Python: \u3078.
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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