Katakana Letter Yo

Group: CJK & kana

Keywords

About this character

Katakana Letter Yo belongs to the CJK & kana group and is encoded at U+30E8. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+30E8
Hex: 30E8
Decimal: 12520
HTML: ヨ
CSS: \30E8
JavaScript: \u30E8
Python: \u30E8
UTF-8: E3 83 A8

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Ideographic Comma U+3001
Ideographic Full Stop U+3002
Ditto Mark U+3003
Japanese Industrial Standard Symbol U+3004
Ideographic Iteration Mark U+3005
Ideographic Closing Mark U+3006
Left Angle Bracket U+3008
Right Angle Bracket U+3009
Left Double Angle Bracket U+300A
Right Double Angle Bracket U+300B
Left Corner Bracket U+300C
Right Corner Bracket U+300D
Left White Corner Bracket U+300E
Right White Corner Bracket U+300F
Left Black Lenticular Bracket U+3010
Right Black Lenticular Bracket U+3011
Postal Mark U+3012
Geta Mark U+3013
Left Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3014
Right Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3015
Left White Lenticular Bracket U+3016
Right White Lenticular Bracket U+3017
Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3018
Right White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3019

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.