U+FF78 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku
U+FF78 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Katakana script.
The glyph is a narrow version of the glyph Katakana Letter Ku. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is halfwidth. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. This katakana joins with other adjacent katakana to form a word. U+FF78 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
く, in hiragana or ク in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. Both represent [kɯ] and their shapes come from the kanji 久.
This kana may have a dakuten added, transforming it into ぐ in hiragana, グ in katakana and gu in Hepburn romanization. The dakuten's addition also changes the sound of the mora represented, to [ɡɯ] in initial positions and varying between [ŋɯ] and [ɣɯ] in the middle of words.
A handakuten (゜) does not occur with ku in normal Japanese text, but it may be used by linguists to indicate a nasal pronunciation [ŋɯ].
In the Ainu language, the katakana ク can be written as small ㇰ, representing a final k sound as in アイヌイタㇰ Ainu itak (Ainu language). This was developed along with other extended katakana to represent sounds in Ainu that are not found in standard Japanese katakana.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65400 |
| UTF-8 | EF BD B8 |
| UTF-16 | FF 78 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 78 |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BD%B8 |
| HTML hex reference | ｸ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ｸ |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | B8 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8E B8 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 8E B8 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 8E B8 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 98 30 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 28 49 38 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | B8 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | B8 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | B8 |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 88 |
| Adobe Glyph List | kukatakanahalfwidth |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER KU | |
| — | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| narrow | |
| Katakana Letter Ku | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Ku | |
| No | |
| Katakana Letter Ku | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| None | |
| halfwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ku | |
| R |