U+FF94 "ﾔ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﾔ
U+FF94 "ﾔ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ya is a typographic variant of the fullwidth katakana character ヤ, designed to occupy exactly half the width of a standard fullwidth character for compatibility with legacy computer systems and data formats where monospaced character grids required a fixed halfwidth layout. It represents the /ja/ syllable in the Japanese writing system and is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, commonly used in contexts such as terminal displays, old text encodings, or when rendering narrow CJK text in environments that historically relied on character width parity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF94 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ya |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヤ" U+30E4 Katakana Letter Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF94 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF94 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff94 |
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 | "ヤ" U+30E4 Katakana Letter Ya |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ヤ" U+30E4 Katakana Letter Ya |
| 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 |