What is the difference between Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen and Equals Sign?

Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen is U+30A0 in the Katakana block. Equals Sign is U+003D in the Basic Latin block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen?

The HTML entity for Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen (U+30A0) is ゠.

What is the HTML entity for Equals Sign?

The HTML entity for Equals Sign (U+003D) is =.

Are Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen and Equals Sign the same Unicode character?

No. Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen is U+30A0 (decimal 12448) and Equals Sign is U+003D (decimal 61). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen and Equals Sign?

Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen (U+30A0) encodes as E3 82 A0 in UTF-8. Equals Sign (U+003D) encodes as 3D in UTF-8.

Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen vs Equals Sign

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.

゠

Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen

U+30A0

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Equals Sign

U+003D

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Property Comparison

Property	Katakana-hiragana Double Hyphen	Equals Sign
Codepoint	`U+30A0`	`U+003D`
Decimal	`12448`	`61`
HTML Entity	`゠`	`=`
HTML Decimal	`゠`	`=`
HTML Hex	`゠`	`=`
UTF-8	`E3 82 A0`	`3D`
UTF-16	`30 A0`	`00 3D`
UTF-32	`000030A0`	`0000003D`
CSS Escape	`\30A0`	`\3D`
JS Escape	`\u30A0`	`\u003D`
Python Escape	`\u30A0`	`\u003D`
URL Encoded	`%E3%82%A0`	`%3D`
Category	`Dash Punctuation (Pd)`	`Math Symbol (Sm)`
Block	`Katakana`	`Basic Latin`
Script	`Common`	`Common`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`ON`
Unicode Version	`3.2`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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