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U+309B · KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK

Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark

  • CodepointU+309B
  • NameKATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK
  • Decimal12443
  • BlockHiragana (U+3040–U+309F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySk — Modifier Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+309B (゛) is KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK, a modifier symbol in the Hiragana block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+0020 + U+3099 ◌゙ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0020 + U+3099 ◌゙. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

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

How to type ゛

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E3 82 9B3 bytes
UTF-16309B1 code unit
UTF-320000309B4 bytes
HTML decimal&#12443;
HTML hex&#x309B;
CSS\309Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u309B
JSON\u309B
Python\u309B
Python\N{KATAKANA-HIRAGANA VOICED SOUND MARK}by name
Java / C#\u309B
C / C++\u309Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{309B}
Go\u309B
Ruby\u309B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12443)
URL-encoded%E3%82%9Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0020 + U+3099 ◌゙
NFKDU+0020 + U+3099 ◌゙
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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+FF9EﾞHalfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
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Nearby in Hiragana

All in block →
U+3095ゕHiragana Letter Small Ka U+3096ゖHiragana Letter Small Ke U+3099◌゙Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark U+309A◌゚Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark U+309C゜Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark U+309DゝHiragana Iteration Mark U+309EゞHiragana Voiced Iteration Mark U+309FゟHiragana Digraph Yori