U+FF6C Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya
U+FF6C 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 Ya. 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+FF6C prohibits line breaks before its position. There are some exceptions, though.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ya (hiragana: や, katakana: ヤ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana is written in two. Both represent [ja]. Their shapes have origins in the character 也.
When small and preceded by an -i kana, this kana represents a palatalization of the preceding consonant sound with the [a] vowel (see yōon).
や can be used by itself as a grammatical particle to connect words in a nonexhaustive list (see Japanese particles#ya).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65388 |
| UTF-8 | EF BD AC |
| UTF-16 | FF 6C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 6C |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BD%AC |
| HTML hex reference | ｬ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ｬ |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8E AC |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 8E AC |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 8E AC |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 96 38 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 28 49 2C 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | AC |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 53 |
| Adobe Glyph List | yasmallkatakanahalfwidth |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER SMALL YA | |
| — | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| narrow | |
| Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| No | |
| Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| None | |
| halfwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Conditional Japanese Starter | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya | |
| R |