U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
U+309A was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and inherits its script property from the preceding character. It is also used in the scripts Hiragana, Katakana.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+309A behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The dakuten (Japanese: 濁点, Japanese pronunciation: [dakɯ̥teꜜɴ] or [dakɯ̥teɴ], lit. "voicing mark"), colloquially ten-ten (点々, "dots"), is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).
The handakuten (半濁点, Japanese pronunciation: [handaꜜkɯ̥teɴ], lit. "half voicing mark"), colloquially maru (丸, "circle"), is a diacritic used with the kana for syllables starting with h to indicate that they should instead be pronounced with [p].
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 12442 |
UTF-8 | E3 82 9A |
UTF-16 | 30 9A |
UTF-32 | 00 00 30 9A |
URL-Quoted | %E3%82%9A |
HTML hex reference | ゚ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌゚ |
Related Characters
Hiragana Letter PaGlyph for U+3071 Hiragana Letter PiGlyph for U+3074 Hiragana Letter PuGlyph for U+3077 Hiragana Letter PeGlyph for U+307A Hiragana Letter PoGlyph for U+307D Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound MarkGlyph for U+309C Katakana Letter PaGlyph for U+30D1 Katakana Letter PiGlyph for U+30D4 Katakana Letter PuGlyph for U+30D7 Katakana Letter PeGlyph for U+30DA Katakana Letter PoGlyph for U+30DD Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound MarkGlyph for U+FF9F
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK | |
NON-SPACING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK | |
Hiragana | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Inherited | |
Nonspacing Mark | |
Kana Voicing | |
None | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Maybe | |
Yes | |
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Maybe | |
Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Extend | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
Wide | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Transparent | |
Combining Mark | |
None | |
not a number | |
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Hiragana Katakana | |
U |