U+FFE9 "￩" Halfwidth Leftwards Arrow Unicode Character

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.