U+31F8 Katakana Letter Small He
U+31F8 was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Katakana script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. 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+31F8 prohibits line breaks before its position. There are some exceptions, though.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
へ, in hiragana, or ヘ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which represents one mora. The [he] sound is the only sound that is written identically in hiragana and katakana and therefore confusable according to the Unicode Standard. In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, ヘ can be written as small ㇸ to represent a final [h] after an [e] sound (エㇸ [eh]).
It is usually pronounced [he] with the aspirate [h] before its vowel. It is also often used as a grammatical particle indicating direction, which makes only the vowel sound [e].
Though the two forms へ and ヘ are usually rendered with a small difference between them, in order to match better with the appearance of other hiragana or katakana characters, they can often be rendered identically. A reader is not expected to distinguish one from the other without contextual clues.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 12792 |
UTF-8 | E3 87 B8 |
UTF-16 | 31 F8 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 31 F8 |
URL-Quoted | %E3%87%B8 |
HTML hex reference | ㇸ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ㇸ |
Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A6 F6 |
Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A6 F6 |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 39 BD 32 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 26 76 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 26 76 1B 28 42 |
Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 83 F4 |
Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 83 F4 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
Property | Value |
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3.2 (2002) | |
KATAKANA LETTER SMALL HE | |
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Katakana Phonetic Extensions | |
Other Letter | |
Katakana | |
Left To Right | |
Not Reordered | |
none | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
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✘ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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Any | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
0 | |
0 | |
0 | |
✘ | |
None | |
— | |
NA | |
Other | |
— | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Yes | |
Yes | |
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Yes | |
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Yes | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Other Letter | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
Katakana | |
✘ | |
✔ | |
✔ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
✘ | |
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None | |
wide | |
Not Applicable | |
— | |
No_Joining_Group | |
Non Joining | |
Conditional Japanese Starter | |
none | |
not a number | |
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Tu |