U+FF84 "ト" Halfwidth Katakana Letter To Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FF84 "ト" Halfwidth Katakana Letter To is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character ト, which represents the syllable "to" in the Japanese writing system. As part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, this character is designed to occupy half the horizontal space of a typical fullwidth character, making it ideal for use in environments where character width must be conserved, such as in older computer terminals, fixed-width text displays, or legacy digital formats. It retains the same phonetic value and visual shape as its fullwidth counterpart but is encoded separately to facilitate compatibility with systems that used a halfwidth character grid, particularly in early Japanese text processing and telecommunications.

General Properties

Code Point U+FF84
Version Added 1.1
Name Halfwidth Katakana Letter To
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Narrow
Decomposition Mapping "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ト
HTML Hex Encoding ト
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBE 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFF84
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FF84
C/C++/Java Escape \uff84

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 "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To
NFKC Simple Casefold "ト" U+30C8 Katakana Letter To
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