U+FF86 "ﾆ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF86 "ﾆ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character ニ, which represents the syllable "ni" in the Japanese writing system. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed for compatibility with legacy character encodings and monospaced terminal displays where a single character occupies half the width of a fullwidth character. This halfwidth form is primarily used in contexts where space efficiency is needed, such as in old computer systems, text-based user interfaces, or certain digital formats that require character width consistency with ASCII characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF86 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ニ" U+30CB Katakana Letter Ni |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF86 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff86 |
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 | "ニ" U+30CB Katakana Letter Ni |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ニ" U+30CB Katakana Letter Ni |
| 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 |