U+FF83 "ﾃ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Te Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﾃ
U+FF83 "ﾃ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Te is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character テ, representing the Japanese syllabic sound "te". It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is specifically designed for compatibility with older or legacy computer systems, such as those used for text-based terminals or certain East Asian character encodings, where a halfwidth (narrower) glyph width was required. Visually, this character appears as a slightly compressed version of its fullwidth counterpart, allowing it to fit into a grid of monospaced text alongside other halfwidth characters without disrupting alignment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF83 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Te |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "テ" U+30C6 Katakana Letter Te |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF83 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF83 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff83 |
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 | "テ" U+30C6 Katakana Letter Te |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "テ" U+30C6 Katakana Letter Te |
| 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 |