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Glyph for U+303D
Source: Noto Emoji

U+303D Part Alternation Mark

U+303D was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block U+3000 to U+303F CJK Symbols and Punctuation in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts Han, Hiragana, Katakana.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+303D offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The CLDR project calls this character “part alternation mark” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: alternation, mark, part.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0F Variation Selector-16: 〽️ See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Japanese punctuation (Japanese: 約物, Hepburn: yakumono) includes various written marks (besides characters and numbers), which differ from those found in European languages, as well as some not used in formal Japanese writing but frequently found in more casual writing, such as exclamation and question marks.

Japanese can be written horizontally or vertically, and some punctuation marks adapt to this change in direction. Parentheses, curved brackets, square quotation marks, ellipses, dashes, and swung dashes are rotated clockwise 90° when used in vertical text (see diagram).

Japanese punctuation marks are usually "full width" (that is, occupying an area that is the same as the surrounding characters).

Punctuation was not widely used in Japanese writing until translations from European languages became common in the 19th century.

Representations

System Representation
12349
UTF-8 E3 80 BD
UTF-16 30 3D
UTF-32 00 00 30 3D
URL-Quoted %E3%80%BD
HTML hex reference 〽
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 〽
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) A3 BC
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) A3 BC
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 39 A6 33
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 51 23 3C 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 4F 23 3C 1B 28 42
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) 82 5B
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) 82 5B

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 3.2 (2002)
Unicode Name (na) PART ALTERNATION MARK
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) CJK Symbols and Punctuation
General Category (gc) Other Punctuation
Script (sc) Common
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+303D Part Alternation Mark
Script Extension (scx) Han Hiragana Katakana
Vertical Orientation (vo) U