U+FF8E "ﾎ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+FF8E "ﾎ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho is a typographic variant of the fullwidth katakana character ホ, which represents the syllable "ho" in Japanese. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, designed for compatibility with legacy text systems and environments that use a fixed-width grid for characters, such as older computer terminals or certain East Asian text processing contexts. This halfwidth version occupies half the horizontal space of its fullwidth counterpart, making it useful for aligning text in monospaced layouts where space efficiency is critical.
General Properties
Code Point
U+FF8E
Name
Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ﾎ
HTML Hex Encoding
ﾎ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEF 0xBE 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding
0xFF8E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000FF8E
C/C++/Java Escape
\uff8e
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Katakana