HIRAGANA ITERATION MARK character

HIRAGANA ITERATION MARK
U+309D
12445
ゝ
ゝ
Lm (Modifier Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Hiragana
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ゝ












HIRAGANA ITERATION MARK is a modifier letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of HIRAGANA ITERATION MARK is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Modifier Letter (Lm) refers to characters that are small, typically superscript or subscript, letters used to modify the meaning of another character. These are not full letters in themselves but serve to modify other characters in linguistic or phonetic contexts.

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..