U+303D "〽" Part Alternation Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+303D "〽" Part Alternation Mark is a typographic symbol used primarily in East Asian scripts, particularly in Japanese, to indicate a change or alternation in a performance, such as the transition between different parts of a song, a shift in speaker in a dialogue, or the beginning of a new section in a piece of music or a narrative, often appearing in printed lyrics, plays, or scripts as a visual cue for a structural division within the text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+303D |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Part Alternation Mark |
| 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 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x303D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000303D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u303d |
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 |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Han Hiragana Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |
| Emoji | Yes |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |