U+FFE9 "￩" Halfwidth Leftwards Arrow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FFE9 "￩" Halfwidth Leftwards Arrow is a typographic symbol that belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed for compatibility with legacy East Asian character encodings such as Shift JIS. It represents a leftwards arrow but occupies only half the width of a standard fullwidth character, allowing it to align neatly in monospaced text environments common in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) computing. Visually similar to its fullwidth counterpart, this arrow is primarily used in terminal interfaces, old computer systems, or text formatting where halfwidth glyphs are required to maintain grid alignment without disrupting the overall character density.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFE9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Leftwards Arrow |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Math Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "←" U+2190 Leftwards Arrow |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffe9 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Halfwidth |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "←" U+2190 Leftwards Arrow |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "←" U+2190 Leftwards Arrow |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Math | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |