COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK character

COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
U+309A
12442
゚
゚
NON-SPACING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
8
Hiragana
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK is Nonspacing Mark (Weak). It belongs to the non-spacing marks, which take on the directionality of the characters to which they attach..

The Nonspacing Mark (NSM) bidi class is assigned to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but modify the preceding base character. NSMs are neutral in directionality but inherit the directionality of the base character they are attached to. They are essential for the accurate representation of characters with diacritics in bidirectional text.

Nonspacing Mark (Mn) refers to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but instead combine with a preceding base character to modify its sound or meaning. Nonspacing marks are essential in many scripts, including Latin, Arabic, and Devanagari, for accurate representation of text.

This character belongs to the Hiragana block. The Hiragana block includes characters used in the Hiragana script, which is one of the two syllabaries used in the Japanese writing system (the other being Katakana). Hiragana is used primarily for native Japanese words, grammatical functions, and words that do not have a kanji representation. This block contains all 46 basic characters, along with a few diacritical marks that modify the sounds of these characters. Hiragana is integral to the Japanese language, used extensively in children’s books, learning materials, and everyday written Japanese..