KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK character

KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK
U+30FC
12540
ー
ー
Lm (Modifier Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Katakana
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND MARK is a modifier letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED SOUND 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 Katakana block. The Katakana block includes characters used in the Katakana script, which, along with Hiragana, forms one of the two syllabaries used in the Japanese writing system. Katakana is used primarily for foreign loanwords, the names of plants, animals, and companies, and for emphasis, much like italics in English. This block includes all 46 basic Katakana characters, as well as several extended Katakana characters and marks. Katakana plays a crucial role in modern Japanese, especially in the context of technology, international communication, and popular culture..