U+FF9D "ﾝ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter N Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ﾝ
U+FF9D "ﾝ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter N is a narrow, monospaced variant of the standard fullwidth katakana character "ン", representing the syllable-final nasal consonant sound commonly found in Japanese words. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed for compatibility with legacy character encodings and for use in text environments with limited character width, such as older computer terminals or fixed-width displays. This character is primarily employed in Japanese text where space efficiency is important or where fullwidth characters are not supported, and it maintains the same linguistic function as its fullwidth counterpart, typically appearing at the end of syllables or words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FF9D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Katakana Letter N |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFF9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FF9D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uff9d |
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 | "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ン" U+30F3 Katakana Letter N |
| 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 |