Information About ®Chōon |
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The symbol is sometimes used with Hiragana , for example in the signs of Ramen restaurants, which are frequently written らーめん in hiragana. However, usually, hiragana does not use the ''chōon'' but another vowel kana to express this sound. The following table shows the usual hiragana equivalents used to form a long vowel, using the ha-gyō as an example. In the Japanese Industrial Standard s encoding system, the chōon has position 213C, and in Unicode it is at position 30FC. |
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