U+FF8A Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha
U+FF8A 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 Ha. 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+FF8A offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ha (hiragana: は, katakana: ハ) is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represent one mora. Both represent [ha]. They are also used as a grammatical particle (in such cases, they denote [wa], including in the greeting "kon'nichiwa") and serve as the topic marker of the sentence. は originates from 波 and ハ from 八.
In the Sakhalin dialect of the Ainu language, the katakana ハ can be written as small ㇵ to represent a final h sound after an a sound (アㇵ ah). This, along with other extended katakana, was developed by Japanese linguists to represent sounds in Ainu not present in standard Japanese katakana.
When used as a particle, は is pronounced as わ [wa]. は is also pronounced as わ in some words (e.g. もののあはれ pronounced as mono no aware).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 65418 |
| UTF-8 | EF BE 8A |
| UTF-16 | FF 8A |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 8A |
| URL-Quoted | %EF%BE%8A |
| HTML hex reference | ﾊ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ﾊ |
| Encoding: CP932 (hex bytes) | CA |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8E CA |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 8E CA |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 8E CA |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 84 31 99 38 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 28 49 4A 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS (hex bytes) | CA |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | CA |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | CA |
| Encoding: CP290 (hex bytes) | 9D |
| Adobe Glyph List | hakatakanahalfwidth |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HA | |
| — | |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | |
| Other Letter | |
| Katakana | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| narrow | |
| Katakana Letter Ha | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| Any | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Katakana Letter Ha | |
| No | |
| Katakana Letter Ha | |
| No | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Other Letter | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Katakana | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| None | |
| halfwidth | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha | |
| R |