What is the difference between Horizontal Bar and Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark?

Horizontal Bar is U+2015 in the General Punctuation block. Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark is U+30FC in the Katakana block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Horizontal Bar?

The HTML entity for Horizontal Bar (U+2015) is ―.

What is the HTML entity for Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark?

The HTML entity for Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark (U+30FC) is ー.

Are Horizontal Bar and Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark the same Unicode character?

No. Horizontal Bar is U+2015 (decimal 8213) and Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark is U+30FC (decimal 12540). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Horizontal Bar and Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark?

Horizontal Bar (U+2015) encodes as E2 80 95 in UTF-8. Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark (U+30FC) encodes as E3 83 BC in UTF-8.

Horizontal Bar vs Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

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Horizontal Bar

U+2015

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Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark

U+30FC

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Property Comparison

Property	Horizontal Bar	Katakana-hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark
Codepoint	`U+2015`	`U+30FC`
Decimal	`8213`	`12540`
HTML Entity	`―`	`ー`
HTML Decimal	`―`	`ー`
HTML Hex	`―`	`ー`
UTF-8	`E2 80 95`	`E3 83 BC`
UTF-16	`20 15`	`30 FC`
UTF-32	`00002015`	`000030FC`
CSS Escape	`\2015`	`\30FC`
JS Escape	`\u2015`	`\u30FC`
Python Escape	`\u2015`	`\u30FC`
URL Encoded	`%E2%80%95`	`%E3%83%BC`
Category	`Dash Punctuation (Pd)`	`Modifier Letter (Lm)`
Block	`General Punctuation`	`Katakana`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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