KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO character

KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO
U+31F3
12787
ㇳ
ㇳ
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Katakana Phonetic Extensions
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of KATAKANA LETTER SMALL TO 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.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Katakana Phonetic Extensions block. The Katakana Phonetic Extensions block contains additional Katakana characters used in the Japanese writing system. These characters are primarily used for the transcription of the Ainu language and other phonetic adaptations of the Katakana script. The block provides support for specialized linguistic needs, particularly in the documentation and preservation of the Ainu language, which has been historically endangered. These extensions ensure that the full range of sounds in Ainu and other languages can be accurately represented using Katakana..