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Glyph for U+303D
Source: Noto Emoji

U+303D Part Alternation Mark

U+303D was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (2002). It belongs to the block U+3000 to U+303F CJK Symbols and Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 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. In text U+303D behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The CLDR project labels this character “part alternation mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: mark, part.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0F Variation Selector-16: 〽️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Japanese punctuation (Japanese: 約物, Hepburn: yakumono) includes various written marks (besides characters and numbers), which differ from those found in European languages, as well as some not used in formal Japanese writing but frequently found in more casual writing, such as exclamation and question marks.

Japanese can be written horizontally or vertically, and some punctuation marks adapt to this change in direction. Parentheses, curved brackets, square quotation marks, ellipses, dashes, and swung dashes are rotated clockwise 90° when used in vertical text (see diagram).

Japanese punctuation marks are usually "full width" (that is, occupying an area that is the same as the surrounding characters).

Punctuation was not widely used in Japanese writing until translations from European languages became common in the 19th century.

Representations

System Representation
12349
UTF-8 E3 80 BD
UTF-16 30 3D
UTF-32 00 00 30 3D
URL-Quoted %E3%80%BD
HTML hex reference 〽
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 〽

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age 3.2 (2002)
Unicode Name PART ALTERNATION MARK
Unicode 1 Name
Block CJK Symbols and Punctuation
General Category Other Punctuation
Script Common
Bidirectional Category Other Neutral
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Case Folding Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
ASCII Hex Digit
Alphabetic
Bidi Control
Bidi Mirrored
Composition Exclusion
Case Ignorable
Changes When Casefolded
Changes When Casemapped
Changes When NFKC Casefolded
Changes When Lowercased
Changes When Titlecased
Changes When Uppercased
Cased
Full Composition Exclusion
Default Ignorable Code Point
Dash
Deprecated
Diacritic
Emoji Modifier Base
Emoji Component
Emoji Modifier
Emoji Presentation
Emoji
Extender
Extended Pictographic
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break Any
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
IDSU 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start 0
Ideographic
InCB None
Indic Mantra Category
Indic Positional Category NA
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Jamo Short Name
Join Control
Logical Order Exception
Math
Noncharacter Code Point
NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKC_SCF Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic
Other Default Ignorable Code Point
Other Grapheme Extend
Other ID Continue
Other ID Start
Other Lowercase
Other Math
Other Uppercase
Prepended Concatenation Mark
Pattern Syntax
Pattern White Space
Quotation Mark
Regional Indicator
Radical
Sentence Break Other
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Other
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Wide
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Ideographic
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Script Extension Han Hiragana Katakana
Vertical Orientation U