U+FF7E "ｾ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Se Unicode Character

U+FF7E "ｾ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Se is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth Katakana character セ (used in the Japanese writing system to represent the syllable "se") and belongs to the "Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms" block in Unicode. Unlike the fullwidth version, which occupies the same width as most CJK characters in monospaced fonts, this halfwidth form is designed to fit into a character cell of half the usual width, making it compatible with legacy computing systems, teletext, or early digital text formats that used narrow character grids. It is encoded at code point U+FF7E and supports the representation of Japanese text in environments where space efficiency or alignment with halfwidth Latin letters is required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FF7E
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Se
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"セ" U+30BB Katakana Letter Se

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ｾ
HTML Hex Encoding	ｾ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBD 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFF7E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FF7E
C/C++/Java Escape	\uff7e

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	"セ" U+30BB Katakana Letter Se
NFKC Simple Casefold	"セ" U+30BB Katakana Letter Se
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