Unicode Character "ー" U+30FC Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark

Unicode Version 15.1

Summary

The unicode character "ー" at code point U+30FC is Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark. It is a character in the Katakana block and is part of the Common script. The character is a modifier letter. The UTF-8 encoding of "ー" is 0xE3 0x83 0xBC and the UTF-16 encoding is 0x30FC.

General Properties

Code Point U+30FC
Version Added 1.1
Name Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
Block Katakana
General Category Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ー
HTML Hex Encoding ー
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x83 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x30FC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000030FC
C/C++/Java Escape \u30fc

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Conditional Japanese Starter
East Asian Width Wide
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Common
Script Extensions Hiragana Katakana
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Diacritic Yes
Extender Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Transformed Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Katakana
Sentence Break OLetter