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U+301C · WAVE DASH

Wave Dash

CodepointU+301C
NameWAVE DASH
Decimal12316
BlockCJK Symbols and Punctuation (U+3000–U+303F)
Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
ScriptCommon
CategoryPd — Dash Punctuation
Unicode version1.1 (1993)
Bidi classON — Other Neutral
Combining class0
East Asian widthW — Wide
MirroredNo

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →

UTF-8	`E3 80 9C`	3 bytes
UTF-16	`301C`	1 code unit
UTF-32	`0000301C`	4 bytes
HTML decimal	`〜`
HTML hex	`〜`
CSS	`\301C`	in content: "…"
JavaScript	`\u301C`
JSON	`\u301C`
Python	`\u301C`
Python	`\N{WAVE DASH}`	by name
Java / C#	`\u301C`
C / C++	`\u301C`	universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP	`\u{301C}`
Go	`\u301C`
Ruby	`\u301C`
Excel / Sheets	`=UNICHAR(12316)`
URL-encoded	`%E3%80%9C`	percent-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.

U+FF5E～Fullwidth Tilde

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Nearby in CJK Symbols and Punctuation

All in block →

U+3016〖Left White Lenticular Bracket U+3017〗Right White Lenticular Bracket U+3018〘Left White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+3019〙Right White Tortoise Shell Bracket U+301A〚Left White Square Bracket U+301B〛Right White Square Bracket U+301D〝Reversed Double Prime Quotation Mark U+301E〞Double Prime Quotation Mark U+301F〟Low Double Prime Quotation Mark U+3020〠Postal Mark Face U+3021〡Hangzhou Numeral One U+3022〢Hangzhou Numeral Two