Unicode Character "ソ" (U+FF7F)

The character ソ (Halfwidth Katakana Letter So) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF7F. It is encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as ソ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Halfwidth Katakana Letter So
Unicode Codepoint U+FF7F
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Katakana
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF7F Conversion

HTML (decimal) ソ
HTML (hex) ソ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BD%BF
CSS \00FF7F
JavaScript, JSON \uFF7F
C, C++, Java \uFF7F
Python \uFF7F
Rust \u{FF7F}
Ruby \uFF7F

How to type "ソ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 7 F. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 7 F. Release Alt.

Preview

  • ソ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • ソ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • ソ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBD 0xBF
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF7F
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF7F

References