U+FF74 "ｴ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF74 "ｴ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter E is a typographic variant of the fullwidth katakana character エ, designed to occupy a single byte width for compatibility with older computer systems or grid based text layouts, particularly in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) computing environments. It represents the phoneme "e" in the Japanese katakana syllabary and is often used in contexts where monospaced or halfwidth characters are required, such as in terminal displays, legacy software, or when mixing with ASCII text. As part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block, this character maintains visual alignment with other halfwidth symbols while preserving the same linguistic function as its fullwidth counterpart.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF74 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter E |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "エ" U+30A8 Katakana Letter E |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff74 |
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 | "エ" U+30A8 Katakana Letter E |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "エ" U+30A8 Katakana Letter E |
| 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 |