U+FF80 "ﾀ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF80 "ﾀ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ta is a narrow, monospaced variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character タ, representing the syllable "ta" in the Japanese writing system. It was originally designed for use in legacy Japanese text environments, such as shift-JIS encoding and early computer terminals, where characters were displayed in a fixed halfwidth grid to conserve space or align with ASCII text. As part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block, this character maintains the same phonetic value as its fullwidth counterpart but occupies only half the typical character width, making it ideal for contexts where compact text formatting or compatibility with older digital systems is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF80 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ta |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "タ" U+30BF Katakana Letter Ta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff80 |
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 | "タ" U+30BF Katakana Letter Ta |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "タ" U+30BF Katakana Letter Ta |
| 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 |