U+FF9F Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
U+FF9F was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the 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 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-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+FF9F 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/.
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| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | |
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK | |
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| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Modifier Letter | |
| Common | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| narrow | |
| Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
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| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
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| ✘ | |
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| Extend | |
| — | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| Yes | |
| Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| No | |
| Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| None | |
| halfwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Nonstarter | |
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| Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark | |
| Hiragana Katakana | |
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