Unicode Character "ﾟ" (U+FF9F)

The character ﾟ (Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FF9F. 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 ﾟ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
Unicode Codepoint U+FF9F
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 Modifier Letter
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FF9F Conversion

HTML (decimal) ﾟ
HTML (hex) ﾟ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BE%9F
CSS \00FF9F
JavaScript, JSON \uFF9F
C, C++, Java \uFF9F
Python \uFF9F
Rust \u{FF9F}
Ruby \uFF9F

How to type "ﾟ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type F F 9 F. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type F F 9 F. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBE 0x9F
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFF9F
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FF9F

References