U+31F8 "ㇸ" Katakana Letter Small He Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㇸ
U+31F8 "ㇸ" Katakana Letter Small He is a small form of the standard katakana character ヘ, used primarily in the Japanese writing system to represent a shortened or reduced version of the syllable "he" in certain linguistic contexts, such as in the transcription of foreign words or in specialized notation where a smaller glyph is required to indicate a modified pronunciation or a moraic unit within compound characters. Unlike its full-sized counterpart, this small character is not generally used on its own in standard Japanese text but appears as a component in specific transliterations or in the representation of archaic or non-standard syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+31F8 |
| Version Added | 3.2 |
| Name | Katakana Letter Small He |
| Block | Katakana Phonetic Extensions |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㇸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㇸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x87 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x31F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000031F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u31f8 |