Unicode Character "ホ" (U+FF8E)

The character (Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF8E. 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 ホ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho
Unicode Codepoint U+FF8E
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+FF8E Conversion

HTML (decimal) ホ
HTML (hex) ホ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BE%8E
CSS \00FF8E
JavaScript, JSON \uFF8E
C, C++, Java \uFF8E
Python \uFF8E
Rust \u{FF8E}
Ruby \uFF8E

How to type "ホ"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBE 0x8E
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF8E
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF8E

References