Katakana-hiragana Semi-voiced Sound Mark

U+309C

Katakana-hiragana Semi-voiced Sound Mark is the Unicode character ゜ at codepoint U+309C in the Hiragana 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 Katakana-hiragana Semi-voiced Sound Mark

To use the Katakana-hiragana Semi-voiced Sound Mark symbol (゜) in HTML, insert the entity ゜ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ゜ works in any HTML-serialised document.

In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\309C';. In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u309C' evaluates to ゜. In Python source, write '\u309C'.

The character encodes to E3 82 9C as UTF-8 bytes and 309C as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 12444.

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.

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Last updated on 5 May 2026