U+FF8B "ﾋ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Hi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﾋ
U+FF8B "ﾋ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Hi is a typographic variant of the fullwidth katakana character "ヒ" (U+30D2), representing the syllable "hi" in the Japanese writing system. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which was designed primarily for compatibility with legacy character encodings and terminal displays where characters occupy a single cell width. Unlike its fullwidth counterpart, which takes up two character cells in monospaced environments, the halfwidth version is narrower but retains the same phonetic value, used in contexts like old computer interfaces, fixed-width text, or when mixing with ASCII characters for alignment.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF8B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Hi |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヒ" U+30D2 Katakana Letter Hi |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff8b |
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 | "ヒ" U+30D2 Katakana Letter Hi |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ヒ" U+30D2 Katakana Letter Hi |
| 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 |