U+FF69 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U
U+FF69 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 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 | ｩ |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | A9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8E A9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 8E A9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 8E A9 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 96 35 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 28 49 29 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | A9 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | A9 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | A9 |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 49 |
| Adobe Glyph List | usmallkatakanahalfwidth |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL U | |
| — | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| narrow | |
| Katakana Letter Small U | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Small U | |
| No | |
| Katakana Letter Small U | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| None | |
| halfwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Conditional Japanese Starter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small U | |
| R |