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Glyph for U+FF9E
Source: Noto CJK

U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark

U+FF9E was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Modifier Letter and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Hiragana, Katakana.

The glyph is a narrow version of the glyph Glyph for U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is halfwidth. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+FF9E 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 (, "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
65438
UTF-8 EF BE 9E
UTF-16 FF 9E
UTF-32 00 00 FF 9E
URL-Quoted %EF%BE%9E
HTML hex reference ゙
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ◌゙
Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) DE
Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) 8E DE
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 8E DE
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 8E DE
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 84 31 9B 38
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) 1B 28 49 5E 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) DE
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) DE
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) DE
Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) BE
Adobe Glyph List voicedmarkkanahalfwidth

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) HALFWIDTH KATAKANA VOICED SOUND MARK
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category (gc) Modifier Letter
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) narrow
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Extend
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) Extend
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Extend
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Extend
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) halfwidth
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Nonstarter
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+FF9E Halfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark
Script Extension (scx) Hiragana Katakana
Vertical Orientation (vo) R