U+30A0 KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN

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Decimal / Nº
12448
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
wide
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+30A0, officially named KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN, was introduced in Unicode version 3.2. It is part of the Katakana block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Dash Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has wide in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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12448 Copied!
UTF-8 E3 82 A0 Copied!
UTF-16 30 A0 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 30 A0 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E3%82%A0 Copied!
HTML hex reference ゠ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'30A0' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u30A0 Copied!
C and C++ \u30a0 Copied!
C# \u30a0 Copied!
CSS \0030A0 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(12448) Copied!
Go \u30a0 Copied!
JavaScript \u30A0 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{30a0} Copied!
JSON \u30A0 Copied!
Java \u30A0 Copied!
Lua \u{30A0} Copied!
Matlab char(12448) Copied!
Perl \x{30A0} Copied!
PHP \u{30a0} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\30A0' Copied!
PowerShell `u{30A0} Copied!
Python \u30a0 Copied!
Ruby \u{30a0} Copied!
Rust \u{30a0} Copied!