U+301C "〜" Wave Dash Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+301C "〜" Wave Dash is a symbol primarily used in East Asian typography, particularly in Japanese and Chinese texts, to indicate a range or extension, such as between numbers or dates, or to represent a prolonged sound in written dialogue and onomatopoeia. It visually resembles a wavy horizontal line and is distinct from the tilde (~) found in standard ASCII, as it has specific East Asian width and usage conventions. In Japanese, it is commonly employed in casual writing to create a playful or drawn-out tone, while in Chinese it serves similar functions as a punctuation mark for ranges. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across different digital platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+301C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Wave Dash |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Dash Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 〜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 〜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x80 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x301C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000301C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u301c |
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 | Nonstarter |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Dash | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Transformed Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |