U+FF96 "ﾖ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Yo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﾖ
U+FF96 "ﾖ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Yo is a typographic variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character ヨ, representing the syllable "yo" in the Japanese writing system. It occupies a single byte width, making it visually narrower and designed for compatibility with legacy computer systems and terminals that required characters to fit within a fixed-width grid. While functionally equivalent to its fullwidth counterpart, this halfwidth form is less common in modern digital text, often appearing in older text encodings, telecommunications systems, or contexts where space efficiency on a line is prioritized over uniform character proportions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF96 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter Yo |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ヨ" U+30E8 Katakana Letter Yo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff96 |
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 | "ヨ" U+30E8 Katakana Letter Yo |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ヨ" U+30E8 Katakana Letter Yo |
| 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 |