U+FF86 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni
U+FF86 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 Ni. 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+FF86 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
に, in hiragana, or ニ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The hiragana is written in three strokes, while the katakana in two. Both represent /ni/ although for phonological reasons, the actual pronunciation is [ɲi].
Notably, the katakana (ニ) is functionally identical to the kanji for two (二), pronounced the same way, and written similarly.
に is used as a particle, with a similar function to the English "to", "in", "at", or "by":
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65414 |
| UTF-8 | EF BE 86 |
| UTF-16 | FF 86 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 86 |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BE%86 |
| HTML hex reference | ﾆ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ﾆ |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | C6 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8E C6 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 8E C6 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 8E C6 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 99 34 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 28 49 46 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | C6 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | C6 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | C6 |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 97 |
| Adobe Glyph List | nikatakanahalfwidth |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER NI | |
| — | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| narrow | |
| Katakana Letter Ni | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Ni | |
| No | |
| Katakana Letter Ni | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| None | |
| halfwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni | |
| R |