Unicode Character "￨" (U+FFE8)

The character ￨ (HALFWIDTH FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+FFE8. 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 ￨.

Main Unicode Properties

Name HALFWIDTH FORMS LIGHT VERTICAL
Unicode Codepoint U+FFE8
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Other Neutral (ON)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Symbol
Script Code for undetermined script
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition mapping

U+FFE8 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ￨
HTML (hex) ￨
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %EF%BF%A8
CSS \FFE8
JavaScript \u{FFE8}
JSON \uFFE8
C, C++ \U0000FFE8
Java \uFFE8
Python \U0000FFE8
Rust \u{FFE8}
Ruby \u{FFE8}

How to type "￨"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xEF 0xBF 0xA8
UTF-16 (hex) 0xFFE8
UTF-32 (hex) 0x0000FFE8

References