゜ is the Unicode character KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK, code point U+309C (decimal 12444) in the Hiragana block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ゜, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes E3 82 9C.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+309C |
| Decimal | 12444 |
| UTF-8 bytes | E3 82 9C |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | 309C |
| UTF-32 | 0000309C |
| HTML decimal | ゜ |
| HTML hex | ゜ |
| CSS | \309C |
| JavaScript | \u309C |
| JSON | \u309C |
| Python | \u309C |
| Python by name | \N{KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK} |
| Java, C# | \u309C |
| Rust, Swift | \u{309C} |
| Go, C, C++ | \u309C |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %E3%82%9C |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK |
| Code point | U+309C (decimal 12444) |
| Block | Hiragana (U+3040–U+309F) |
| General category | Sk: Modifier symbol |
| Script | Common |
| Bidirectional class | ON: Other neutral |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK has a compatibility decomposition (compat) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.
Nearby in Hiragana
- を U+3092 Hiragana Letter Wo
- ん U+3093 Hiragana Letter N
- ゔ U+3094 Hiragana Letter Vu
- ゕ U+3095 Hiragana Letter Small Ka
- ゖ U+3096 Hiragana Letter Small Ke
- U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark
- U+309A Combining Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
- ゛ U+309B Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark
- ゝ U+309D Hiragana Iteration Mark
- ゞ U+309E Hiragana Voiced Iteration Mark
- ゟ U+309F Hiragana Digraph Yori
All 93 characters: Hiragana.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ゜?
- Use ゜ (decimal) or ゜ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+309C?
- E3 82 9C (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %E3%82%9C.
- How do I write U+309C in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \u309C. Python: \u309C.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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