U+3001 "、" Ideographic Comma Unicode Character

U+3001 "、" Ideographic Comma is a punctuation mark used in East Asian writing systems, primarily in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts, where it functions as a comma to separate items in a list or clauses within a sentence, distinct from the Latin comma by its wider spacing and small open form that aligns with the square character grid typical of these scripts, and it is commonly employed in traditional and simplified Chinese, as well as in Japanese horizontal and vertical writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3001
Version Added	1.1
Name	Ideographic Comma
Block	CJK Symbols and Punctuation
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	、
HTML Hex Encoding	、
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x80 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3001
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003001
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3001

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Close Punctuation
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana Mongolian Yi
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Terminal Punctuation	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Transformed Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	SContinue