U+3003 Ditto Mark
U+3003 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block CJK Symbols and Punctuation in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Bopomofo, Hangul, Han, Hiragana, Katakana.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+3003 behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The ditto mark is a shorthand sign, used mostly in hand-written text, indicating that the words or figures above it are to be repeated.
The mark is made using 'a pair of apostrophes'; 'a pair of marks " used underneath a word'; the symbol " (quotation mark); or the symbol ” (right double quotation mark).
In the following example, the second line reads "Blue pens, box of twenty".
Black pens, box of twenty ... $2.10 Blue " " " " ... $2.35
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12291 |
| UTF-8 | E3 80 83 |
| UTF-16 | 30 03 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 30 03 |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%80%83 |
| HTML hex reference | 〃 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 〃 |
| Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) | A1 A8 |
| Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) | A1 B7 |
| Adobe Glyph List | dittomark |
| digraph | +" |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| DITTO MARK | |
| — | |
| CJK Symbols and Punctuation | |
| Other Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| None | |
| Wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Ditto Mark | |
| Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana | |
| U |