U+FF9C Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa
U+FF9C 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 Wa. 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+FF9C offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
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 digraph ヴァ.
The kana は (ha) is read as “wa” when it represents a particle.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | DC |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8E DC |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 8E DC |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 8E DC |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 9B 36 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 28 49 5C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | DC |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | DC |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | DC |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | BC |
| Adobe Glyph List | wakatakanahalfwidth |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER WA | |
| — | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| narrow | |
| Katakana Letter Wa | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Wa | |
| No | |
| Katakana Letter Wa | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| None | |
| halfwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Wa | |
| R |