U+FF79 "ケ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ke Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FF79 "ケ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ke is a halfwidth form of the Japanese katakana character ケ, which represents the syllable "ke" and is used in the context of East Asian typography for compatibility with legacy systems and monospaced character grids.

General Properties

Code Point U+FF79
Version Added 1.1
Name Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ke
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Narrow
Decomposition Mapping "ケ" U+30B1 Katakana Letter Ke

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ケ
HTML Hex Encoding ケ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBD 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFF79
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FF79
C/C++/Java Escape \uff79

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 "ケ" U+30B1 Katakana Letter Ke
NFKC Simple Casefold "ケ" U+30B1 Katakana Letter Ke
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