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U+FF70 CHARACTER

HALFWIDTH KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK

Quick Facts

Unicode Name HALFWIDTH KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK
Code Point U+FF70
Decimal Value 65392
General Category Modifier Letter (Lm) →
Unicode Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes EF BD B0
UTF-16 Code Unit FF70
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000FF70
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: FF 70 LE: 70 FF
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 FF 70 LE: 70 FF 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ー
HTML Hexadecimal ー
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00FF70
JavaScript (ES6) \uFF70
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uFF70
JSON Escape \uFF70
Python \uFF70
PHP "\u{FF70}"
Java "\uFF70"
C / C++ "\uFF70"
Rust '\u{ff70}'
URL Percent-Encoded %EF%BD%B0

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition <narrow> 30FC narrow
NFC / NFD Forms Compatibility decomposition (<narrow>): NFKD/NFKC normalize to equivalent base characters.

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class LLeft-to-Right
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+FF70 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 HALFWIDTH KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK

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

Identifier U+FF70

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