unicode

ー

U+30FC

KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK

KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK · Modifier Letter · Katakana · Common script

xid-start

Practice lab

Train Katakana starting with ー

Free interactive drills for reading and writing the full katakana set — on jepang.org

Katakana practice drills

Quick facts

Code point: U+30FC
Decimal: 12540
Name: KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK
General category: Lm — Modifier Letter
Block: Katakana
Script: Common
Bidi class: L
Combining class: 0
Age: 1.1
Name aliases: —

Normalization & case

Decomposition: —
Uppercase: —
Lowercase: —
Titlecase: —
Case folding: —
Bidi mirrored: No

Layout & width

East Asian Width: W
Line Break: CJ
Numeric: —
Script extensions: Hira Kana

Binary properties

DiacriticExtenderAlphabeticID_StartID_ContinueXID_StartXID_Continue

Developer examples

JS: '\u{30fc}' // U+30FC
Python: "\N{KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK}"
HTML: ー

Encodings & escapes

UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-32
HTML decimal
HTML hex
JavaScript
Python
CSS
JSON
URL (UTF-8)
C / C++

Related

Previous

U+30FB

Next

U+30FD

Block

Katakana

Category

Modifier Letter

Script

Common

Source

Unicode: 16.0.0
WHATWG: —