U+FF8A "ﾊ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF8A "ﾊ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth Katakana character ハ, designed to occupy half the typical character width for compatibility with legacy computer systems and terminal displays that used a fixed-width character grid. It represents the syllable "ha" and is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, originally developed to support text interchange with older Japanese character encodings like Shift JIS. Visually, it appears as a narrower, condensed version of its fullwidth counterpart, and it is primarily used in contexts where space efficiency is required, such as in early computer interfaces, teletext, or certain embedded systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF8A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ハ" U+30CF Katakana Letter Ha |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff8a |
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 | "ハ" U+30CF Katakana Letter Ha |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ハ" U+30CF Katakana Letter Ha |
| 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 |