U+FF92 "ﾒ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Me Unicode Character

U+FF92 "ﾒ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Me is a halfwidth representation of the katakana character メ, used primarily in contexts where space is limited, such as in terminal displays, teletext, or legacy computing systems. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which was designed to accommodate the character width constraints of older CJK character encoding standards. While visually narrower than its fullwidth counterpart, it carries the same phonetic value, representing the syllable "me" in the Japanese katakana syllabary. This character is typically employed in environments adhering to shifted JIS X 0201 encodings, and its usage has declined with the widespread adoption of more modern, Unicode compliant text rendering.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FF92
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Me
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾒ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾒ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFF92
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FF92
C/C++/Java Escape	\uff92

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	"メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me
NFKC Simple Casefold	"メ" U+30E1 Katakana Letter Me
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