U+30FE "ヾ" Katakana Voiced Iteration Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ヾ
U+30FE "ヾ" Katakana Voiced Iteration Mark is a typographic symbol used in the Japanese writing system to indicate the repetition of a previous katakana character while also adding a voiced or "dakuon" sound, such as turning "k" into "g" or "s" into "z". Unlike the unvoiced iteration mark, this mark appears with two small dots resembling a dakuten, and it is typically written smaller than standard characters. It is employed in specific contexts like rendering repeated syllables in names, onomatopoeia, or certain colloquial representations, though it is less common than its hiragana counterpart. Its proper usage requires that it follow a single katakana character within a word, and it cannot stand alone or begin a word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+30FE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Katakana Voiced Iteration Mark |
| Block | Katakana |
| General Category | Modifier Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヽ" U+30FD Katakana Iteration Mark "゙" U+3099 Combining Katakana-Hiragana Voiced Sound Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ヾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ヾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x83 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x30FE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000030FE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u30fe |