U+31FA Katakana Letter Small Mu
U+31FA was added in Unicode version 3.2 in 2002. It belongs to the block Katakana Phonetic Extensions in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
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+31FA prohibits line breaks before its position. There are some exceptions, though.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
む, in hiragana, or ム in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is written with three strokes, while the katakana is written with two. Both represent [mɯ].
In older Japanese texts until the spelling reforms of 1900, む was also used to transcribe the nasalised [ɴ]. Since the reforms, it is replaced in such positions with ん.
In the Ainu language, ム can be written as small ㇺ, which represents a final m sound. This, along with other extended katakana, was developed by Japanese linguists to represent Ainu sounds that do not exist in standard Japanese katakana.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 12794 |
| UTF-8 | E3 87 BA |
| UTF-16 | 31 FA |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 31 FA |
| URL-Quoted | %E3%87%BA |
| HTML hex reference | ㇺ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ㇺ |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A6 F9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A6 F9 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 39 BD 34 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 26 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 26 79 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 83 F7 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 83 F7 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 3.2 (2002) | |
| KATAKANA LETTER SMALL MU | |
| — | |
| Katakana Phonetic Extensions | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Conditional Japanese Starter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Katakana Letter Small Mu | |
| Tu |