U+30A0 Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen
U+30A0 was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block Katakana in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Dash Punctuation and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. It is also used in the scripts 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. This katakana joins with other adjacent katakana to form a word. U+30A0 prohibits line breaks before its position. There might be some exceptions, though. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In Latin script, the double hyphen ⹀ is a punctuation mark that consists of two parallel hyphens. It was a development of the earlier double oblique hyphen ⸗, which developed from a Central European variant of the virgule slash, originally a form of scratch comma. Similar marks (see below) are used in other scripts.
In order to avoid it being confused with the equals sign =, the double hyphen is often shown as a double oblique hyphen in modern typography. The double hyphen is also not to be confused with two consecutive hyphens (--), which are often used to represent an em dash — or en dash – due to the limitations of typewriters and keyboards that do not have distinct hyphen and dash keys.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12448 |
| UTF-8 | E3 82 A0 |
| UTF-16 | 30 A0 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 30 A0 |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%82%A0 |
| HTML hex reference | ゠ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ã‚ |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.2 (2002) | |
| KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN | |
| — | |
| Katakana | |
| Dash Punctuation | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Nonstarter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Katakana-Hiragana Double Hyphen | |
| Hiragana Katakana | |
| Tr |