U+FF85 "ﾅ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Na Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﾅ
U+FF85 "ﾅ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Na is a halfwidth version of the standard fullwidth katakana character ナ, which represents the syllable "na" in Japanese. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block, a legacy compatibility area designed to maintain visual alignment in older computer systems and character cell displays where characters were often monospaced and required a fixed width. Unlike its fullwidth counterpart, this character occupies only half the typical character cell width, making it useful in environments with limited horizontal space or for mixing with halfwidth Latin text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF85 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Na |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ナ" U+30CA Katakana Letter Na |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff85 |
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 | "ナ" U+30CA Katakana Letter Na |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ナ" U+30CA Katakana Letter Na |
| 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 |