U+FF9C Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa
U+FF9C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Katakana script.
The glyph is a narrow version of the glyph
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Wa (hiragana: わ, katakana: ワ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The combination of a W-column kana letter with わ゙ in hiragana was introduced to represent [va] in the 19th century and 20th century. It represents [wa] and has origins in the character 和. There is also a small ゎ/ヮ, that is used to write the morae /kwa/ and /gwa/ (くゎ, ぐゎ), which are almost obsolete in contemporary standard Japanese but still exist in the Ryukyuan languages. A few loanword such as シークヮーサー(shiikwaasa from Okinawan language) and ムジカ・アンティクヮ・ケルン (Musica Antiqua Köln, German early music group) contains this letter in Japanese. Katakana ワ is also sometimes written with dakuten, ヷ, to represent a /va/ sound in foreign words; however, most IMEs lack a convenient way to write this. It is far more common to represent the /va/ sound with the combination ヴァ.
The kana は (ha) is read as “wa” when it represents a particle.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 65436 |
UTF-8 | EF BE 9C |
UTF-16 | FF 9C |
UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 9C |
URL-Quoted | %EF%BE%9C |
HTML hex reference | ワ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ワ |
Adobe Glyph List | wakatakanahalfwidth |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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1.1 (1993) | |
HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER WA | |
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Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
Other Letter | |
Katakana | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
narrow | |
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✔ | |
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✔ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
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✘ | |
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✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
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✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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No | |
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No | |
✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
Other Letter | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Katakana | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
halfwidth | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Ideographic | |
none | |
not a number | |
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R |