Unicode Character "ｰ" (U+FF70)

The character ｰ (Halfwidth Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF70. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ｰ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Halfwidth Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
Unicode Codepoint U+FF70
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Modifier Letter
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF70 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ｰ
HTML (hex) ｰ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BD%B0
CSS \00FF70
JavaScript, JSON \uFF70
C, C++, Java \uFF70
Python \uFF70
Rust \u{FF70}
Ruby \uFF70

How to type "ｰ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 7 0. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 7 0. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ｰ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ｰ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ｰ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBD 0xB0
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF70
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF70

References