U+FF79 "ケ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ke Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ケ
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 |