U+FF96 "ﾖ" Halfwidth Katakana Letter Yo Unicode Character

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.