HIRAGANA LETTER SI character

HIRAGANA LETTER SI
U+3057
12375
し
し
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Hiragana
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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HIRAGANA LETTER SI is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of HIRAGANA LETTER SI is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Hiragana block. The Hiragana block includes characters used in the Hiragana script, which is one of the two syllabaries used in the Japanese writing system (the other being Katakana). Hiragana is used primarily for native Japanese words, grammatical functions, and words that do not have a kanji representation. This block contains all 46 basic characters, along with a few diacritical marks that modify the sounds of these characters. Hiragana is integral to the Japanese language, used extensively in children’s books, learning materials, and everyday written Japanese..