U+309C Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
U+309C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Hiragana in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Modifier Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Hiragana, Katakana.
The glyph is a compatibility composition of the glyphs Space, Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. This katakana joins with other adjacent katakana to form a word. U+309C prohibits line breaks before its position. There might be some exceptions, though. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
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 mora 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 kana for morae pronounced with /h/ or /f/ to indicate that they should instead be pronounced with /p/.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12444 |
| UTF-8 | E3 82 9C |
| UTF-16 | 30 9C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 30 9C |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%82%9C |
| HTML hex reference | ゜ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌゜ |
| Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes) | C8 D5 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | 81 4B |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | A1 AC |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A1 AC |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A1 AC |
| Encoding: GBK (hex bytes) | A9 62 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | A9 62 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 2C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 2C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 2C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 2C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 2C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 42 21 2C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | 81 4B |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 81 4B |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 81 4B |
| Adobe Glyph List | semivoicedmarkkana |
| digraph | 05 |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK | |
| — | |
| Hiragana | |
| Modifier Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| compatibility | |
| Space Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Space Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| No | |
| Space Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Nonstarter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Hiragana Katakana | |
| Tu |