U+3032 "〲" Vertical Kana Repeat with Voiced Sound Mark Unicode Character

U+3032 "〲" Vertical Kana Repeat with Voiced Sound Mark is a specialized punctuation mark used in traditional vertical Japanese writing to indicate that the preceding kana character should be repeated, but with the addition of a voiced sound mark (dakuten). This symbol effectively tells the reader to repeat the previous kana while applying a voicing mark to it, such as transforming an unvoiced sound like "ka" into a voiced sound like "ga." It is commonly found in older or stylized Japanese texts, and is part of the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block, serving as a more compact alternative to writing out the repeated voiced character explicitly.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3032
Version Added	1.1
Name	Vertical Kana Repeat with Voiced Sound Mark
Block	CJK Symbols and Punctuation
General Category	Modifier Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	〲
HTML Hex Encoding	〲
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x80 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3032
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003032
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3032

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	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Hiragana Katakana
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Extender	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Katakana
Sentence Break	OLetter