U+FF88 "ﾈ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ne Unicode Character

U+FF88 "ﾈ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ne is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character ネ, which represents the syllable "ne" in the Japanese writing system. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block and was designed to fit into a monospaced grid of half the width of a regular fullwidth character, primarily for compatibility with older computer systems and text environments that used a narrow character cell, such as certain terminal displays or early digital character sets. This halfwidth form retains the same phonetic value and visual shape as its fullwidth counterpart but occupies only one character cell instead of two, making it a legacy element of text encoding for East Asian scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FF88
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ne
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"ネ" U+30CD Katakana Letter Ne

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾈ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾈ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFF88
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FF88
C/C++/Java Escape	\uff88

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	"ネ" U+30CD Katakana Letter Ne
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ネ" U+30CD Katakana Letter Ne
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