U+FF95 "ﾕ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Yu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FF95 "ﾕ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Yu is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth Katakana character ユ, designed specifically for use in legacy computer systems or CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) fonts that adhere to a halfwidth character grid. It occupies a single byte width in encoding, unlike its fullwidth counterpart which takes up two bytes, making it useful for compatibility with older text environments or for compact display in terminals and monospaced fonts. This character represents the Japanese mora "yu" and is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, serving primarily as a historical or formatting alternative rather than a distinct linguistic symbol.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF95 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Yu |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ユ" U+30E6 Katakana Letter Yu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF95 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF95 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff95 |
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 | "ユ" U+30E6 Katakana Letter Yu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ユ" U+30E6 Katakana Letter Yu |
| 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 |