Chōonpu

The Choon (Japanese长 音, dt "extended tone " ) or Bosen (棒 线, dt " line, line " ) is a Japanese character that is used as a strain characters indicate a long vowel. It is used as written in Katakana words.

In the horizontal notation ( yokogaki ) there is a horizontal em dash (-) in the vertical case ( tategaki ) is the vertical line. However, the choon is slightly higher than the em dash Latin pleadings and is also slightly wider:

The Japanese Orthografieregeln after choon is used only in conjunction with Katakana. In the hiragana letters usually no Längungsstrich a second vowel is set, but is inserted. However, quite often find, for example, ramen restaurants with the signらーめんin Hiragana and Choon.

In the Hepburn transcription of the prolonged vowel is represented by a macron (¯ ). In the JSL romanization a doubled vowel is instead written, for example, in Chooon.

The following table indicates the usual substitutions, wherein the H line of the 50 sounds of panel is used as an example.

In the JIS character set (Japan Industrial Standard ) is the choon at position 213C, in Unicode he finds himself at the point U 30 FC.

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