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Glyph for U+309A
Source: Noto CJK

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 U+3040 to U+309F Hiragana in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

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
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

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
Unicode 1 Name NON-SPACING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
Block Hiragana
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Script Inherited
Bidirectional Category Nonspacing Mark
Combining Class Kana Voicing
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Lowercase
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Uppercase
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Case Folding Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound 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+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Grapheme Base
Grapheme Extend
Grapheme Link
Hex Digit
Hyphen
ID Continue
ID Start
IDS Binary Operator
IDS Trinary Operator and
Ideographic
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 Maybe
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
NFKC Quick Check Maybe
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 Extend
Soft Dotted
Sentence Terminal
Terminal Punctuation
Unified Ideograph
Variation Selector
Word Break Extend
White Space
XID Continue
XID Start
Expands On NFC
Expands On NFD
Expands On NFKC
Expands On NFKD
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound 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 Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Script Extension Hiragana Katakana
Vertical Orientation U