Wave dash
Wave dash (〜, Unicode U+301C) is a fullwidth character represented in Japanese character encoding, usually used to represent a range.
- Vertical wave dash (
) also exists, but is not encoded in Unicode.
Wave dash is also written in vertical text layout. Vertical wave dash is the vertical form by rotation and flip in Unicode and JIS C 6226.[1][2]
See also
Code reference
| Standard | Release | Code-Point Ku-Ten / Ku-Men-Ten |
Glyph | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode 1.0 | 1991 | U+301C WAVE DASH |  |
The glyph was different from the original JIS C 6226 or JIS X 0208. |
| Unicode 8.0 | 2015 | U+301C WAVE DASH |  |
The glyph was fixed in Errata fixed in Unicode 8.0.0, The Unicode Consortium, 6 Oct 2014 |
| JIS C 6226 | 1978 | 1-33 | |
The wave was not stressed this much.[3] |
| JIS X 0208 | 1990 | 1-33 | |
|
| JIS X 0213 | 2000 | 1-1-33 | |
| Encode | code | Note |
|---|---|---|
| ISO 2022-JP | 0x2141 | |
| Shift JIS | 0x8160 | |
| EUC-JP | 0xA1C1 | (= 0x2141 + 0x8080) |
| UTF-8 | 0xE3809C |
References
- ^ Ken Lunde (1999). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". pp. 345–346, 348. ISBN 978-1-56592-224-2.
- ^ Unicode Vertical Text Layout, Table 4. Glyph Changes for Vertical Orientation: www.unicode.org
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ Katsuhiro Ogata, History of wave dash in several standards (in Japanese), http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/special/20150307_691658.html: Internet Watch
{{citation}}: External link in|location= - ^ JIS X 0208 (1990) to Unicode, www.unicode.org, 1994
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