Source: Noto CJK

U+FF69 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U

U+FF69 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 Small U. 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+FF69 prohibits line breaks before its position. There are some exceptions, though.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

U (hiragana: う, katakana: ウ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. In the modern Japanese system of alphabetical order, they occupy the third place in the modern Gojūon (五十音) system of collating kana. In the Iroha, they occupied the 24th position, between む and ゐ. In the Gojūon chart (ordered by columns, from right to left), う lies in the first column (あ行, "column A") and the third row (う段, "row U"). Both represent the sound [ɯ]. In the Ainu language, the small katakana ゥ represents a diphthong, and is written as w in the Latin alphabet.

The hiragana form with dakuten, ゔ, representing the sound "v", is rarely seen in older words, since the sound does not occur in native Japanese words. However, it is becoming more common with Western influences.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	65385
UTF-8	EF BD A9
UTF-16	FF 69
UTF-32	00 00 FF 69
URL-Quoted	%EF%BD%A9
HTML hex reference	ｩ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ï½©
Adobe Glyph List	usmallkatakanahalfwidth

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL U
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category (gc)	Other Letter
Script (sc)	Katakana
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	narrow
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Katakana Letter Small U
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
Case Folding (cf)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Katakana Letter Small U
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Katakana Letter Small U
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Katakana
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	halfwidth
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Conditional Japanese Starter
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R