Halfwidth Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark is the Unicode character ｰ at codepoint U+FF70 in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard — or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Halfwidth Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
To use the Halfwidth Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark symbol (ｰ) in HTML, insert the
entity ｰ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ｰ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\FF70';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\uFF70' evaluates to ｰ. In Python source, write '\uFF70'.
The character encodes to EF BD B0 as UTF-8 bytes and FF70 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 65392.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.