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U+309C · KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK

Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark

  • CodepointU+309C
  • NameKATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
  • Decimal12444
  • 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+309C (゜) is KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-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+309A ◌゚ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+0020 + U+309A ◌゚. 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 9C3 bytes
UTF-16309C1 code unit
UTF-320000309C4 bytes
HTML decimal&#12444;
HTML hex&#x309C;
CSS\309Cin content: "…"
JavaScript\u309C
JSON\u309C
Python\u309C
Python\N{KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK}by name
Java / C#\u309C
C / C++\u309Cuniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{309C}
Go\u309C
Ruby\u309C
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12444)
URL-encoded%E3%82%9Cpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+0020 + U+309A ◌゚
NFKDU+0020 + U+309A ◌゚
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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+FF9FﾟHalfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
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Nearby in Hiragana

All in block →
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+309B゛Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark U+309DゝHiragana Iteration Mark U+309EゞHiragana Voiced Iteration Mark U+309FゟHiragana Digraph Yori