U+FF76 "ｶ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF76 "ｶ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ka is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character カ used in Japanese writing, designed to occupy exactly half the width of a typical East Asian ideographic character for compatibility with legacy computer systems and monospaced terminal displays. It represents the syllable "ka" and is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, which was created to facilitate text interchange between older character encodings like Shift JIS and modern Unicode standards. This halfwidth form is still occasionally encountered in retro computing contexts, certain text user interfaces, or historical digital documents where space efficiency was a priority.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF76 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ka |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "カ" U+30AB Katakana Letter Ka |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ｶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ｶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBD 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF76 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF76 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff76 |
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 | "カ" U+30AB Katakana Letter Ka |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "カ" U+30AB Katakana Letter Ka |
| 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 |