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U+30FC CHARACTER

KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK

Quick Facts

Unicode Name KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK
Code Point U+30FC
Decimal Value 12540
General Category Modifier Letter (Lm) →
Unicode Block Katakana →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E3 83 BC
UTF-16 Code Unit 30FC
UTF-32 4 bytes 000030FC
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 30 FC LE: FC 30
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 30 FC LE: FC 30 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ー
HTML Hexadecimal ー
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \0030FC
JavaScript (ES6) \u30FC
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u30FC
JSON Escape \u30FC
Python \u30FC
PHP "\u{30FC}"
Java "\u30FC"
C / C++ "\u30FC"
Rust '\u{30fc}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E3%83%BC

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+30FC across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
Context: A ー Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
Context: A ー Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
Context: A ー Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
Context: A ー Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+30FC

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