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KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK character

KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK specifications

Name:

KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK

Hex Number:

U+30FC

Decimal Number:

12540

HTML Entity (Dec):

ー

HTML Entity (Hex):

ー

Category:

Lm (Modifier Letter)

Bidi Class:

L (Left-to-Right)

Mirrored:

Decomposition:

Combining Class:

Unicode Block:

Katakana

Script:

Common

Plane:

Plane Code:

BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane)

Plane Range:

0000-FFFF

Character Preview:

ー

About KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK

Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark (U+30FC) is a Unicode modifier letter from the Katakana block. It resides on Plane 0 (BMP, Basic Multilingual Plane), has bidirectional class L (left-to-right), is not mirrored, and has combining class 0 (Not Reordered). In HTML it can be written as ー or ー.