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U+3073 · HIRAGANA LETTER BI

Hiragana Letter Bi

  • CodepointU+3073
  • NameHIRAGANA LETTER BI
  • Decimal12403
  • BlockHiragana (U+3040–U+309F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptHiragana
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+3073 (び) is HIRAGANA LETTER BI, a letter in the Hiragana block. It belongs to the Hiragana script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is precomposed. Under NFD it decomposes into U+3072 ひ + U+3099 ◌゙, and NFC recombines that sequence into this single codepoint, so both spellings are canonically equivalent and should compare equal after normalization. See the normalization guide.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type び

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E3 81 B33 bytes
UTF-1630731 code unit
UTF-32000030734 bytes
HTML decimalび
HTML hexび
CSS\3073in content: "…"
JavaScript\u3073
JSON\u3073
Python\u3073
Python\N{HIRAGANA LETTER BI}by name
Java / C#\u3073
C / C++\u3073universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3073}
Go\u3073
Ruby\u3073
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12403)
URL-encoded%E3%81%B3percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDU+3072 ひ + U+3099 ◌゙
NFKCunchanged
NFKDU+3072 ひ + U+3099 ◌゙
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Nearby in Hiragana

All in block →
U+306DねHiragana Letter Ne U+306EのHiragana Letter No U+306FはHiragana Letter Ha U+3070ばHiragana Letter Ba U+3071ぱHiragana Letter Pa U+3072ひHiragana Letter Hi U+3074ぴHiragana Letter Pi U+3075ふHiragana Letter Hu U+3076ぶHiragana Letter Bu U+3077ぷHiragana Letter Pu U+3078へHiragana Letter He U+3079べHiragana Letter Be