U+FF8E "ﾎ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF8E "ﾎ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho is a typographic variant of the fullwidth katakana character ホ, which represents the syllable "ho" in Japanese. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, designed for compatibility with legacy text systems and environments that use a fixed-width grid for characters, such as older computer terminals or certain East Asian text processing contexts. This halfwidth version occupies half the horizontal space of its fullwidth counterpart, making it useful for aligning text in monospaced layouts where space efficiency is critical.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF8E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ホ" U+30DB Katakana Letter Ho |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff8e |
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 | "ホ" U+30DB Katakana Letter Ho |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ホ" U+30DB Katakana Letter Ho |
| 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 |