U+FF87 "ﾇ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Nu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﾇ
U+FF87 "ﾇ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Nu is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character ヌ (nu), designed to occupy a single character width in monospaced environments like older computer terminals and early East Asian text systems. It represents the syllable "nu" and is one of the halfwidth katakana forms included in the Unicode standard primarily for compatibility with legacy character encodings and specific display contexts where space efficiency was critical. Although less common in modern digital typography, this character remains part of the Unicode repertoire to ensure faithful representation of historical data and certain specialized text formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF87 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Nu |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヌ" U+30CC Katakana Letter Nu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff87 |
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 | "ヌ" U+30CC Katakana Letter Nu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ヌ" U+30CC Katakana Letter Nu |
| 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 |