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カ
U+30AB · KATAKANA LETTER KA

Katakana Letter Ka

  • CodepointU+30AB
  • NameKATAKANA LETTER KA
  • Decimal12459
  • BlockKatakana (U+30A0–U+30FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptKatakana
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+30AB (カ) is KATAKANA LETTER KA, a letter in the Katakana block. It belongs to the Katakana script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

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

How to type カ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E3 82 AB3 bytes
UTF-1630AB1 code unit
UTF-32000030AB4 bytes
HTML decimalカ
HTML hexカ
CSS\30ABin content: "…"
JavaScript\u30AB
JSON\u30AB
Python\u30AB
Python\N{KATAKANA LETTER KA}by name
Java / C#\u30AB
C / C++\u30ABuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{30AB}
Go\u30AB
Ruby\u30AB
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12459)
URL-encoded%E3%82%ABpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

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Characters built on カ

U+30ACガKatakana Letter Ga U+32D5㋕Circled Katakana Ka U+3308㌈Square Eekaa U+330B㌋Square Kairi U+330C㌌Square Karatto U+330D㌍Square Karorii U+FF76ｶHalfwidth Katakana Letter Ka
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Nearby in Katakana

All in block →
U+30A5ゥKatakana Letter Small U U+30A6ウKatakana Letter U U+30A7ェKatakana Letter Small E U+30A8エKatakana Letter E U+30A9ォKatakana Letter Small O U+30AAオKatakana Letter O U+30ACガKatakana Letter Ga U+30ADキKatakana Letter Ki U+30AEギKatakana Letter Gi U+30AFクKatakana Letter Ku U+30B0グKatakana Letter Gu U+30B1ケKatakana Letter Ke