Unicode Character "ﾍ" (U+FF8D)

The character ﾍ (Halfwidth Katakana Letter He) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF8D. 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 ﾍ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Halfwidth Katakana Letter He
Unicode Codepoint U+FF8D
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+FF8D Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﾍ
HTML (hex) ﾍ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BE%8D
CSS \00FF8D
JavaScript, JSON \uFF8D
C, C++, Java \uFF8D
Python \uFF8D
Rust \u{FF8D}
Ruby \uFF8D

How to type "ﾍ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 8 D. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 8 D. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBE 0x8D
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF8D
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF8D

References