U+FF73 "ｳ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF73 "ｳ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter U is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character ウ, which represents the vowel sound "u" in the Japanese syllabary. It occupies a single character width in monospaced text, making it half the width of its fullwidth counterpart, and was originally designed for compatibility with legacy computer systems and terminals that used a fixed-width grid for displaying characters. This halfwidth form is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block and is primarily used in contexts where space efficiency is important, such as in old-style ASCII environments or when mixing with other halfwidth characters for aesthetic or technical reasons.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF73 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter U |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ウ" U+30A6 Katakana Letter U |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff73 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Halfwidth |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ウ" U+30A6 Katakana Letter U |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ウ" U+30A6 Katakana Letter U |
| Script | Katakana |
| Script Extensions | Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Katakana |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |