U+FF8C Halfwidth Katakana Letter Hu
U+FF8C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Katakana script.
The glyph is a narrow version of the glyph
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
ふ, in hiragana, or フ in katakana, is one of the Japanese kana, each of which represents one mora. The hiragana is made in four strokes, while the katakana in one. It represents the phoneme /hɯ/, although for phonological reasons (general scheme for /h/ group, whose only phonologic survivor to /f/ ([ɸ]) remaining is ふ: b<-p<--f-->h), the actual pronunciation is [ɸɯᵝ] , which is why it is romanized fu in Hepburn romanization instead of hu as in Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki rōmaji (Korean 후 /hu/ creates the same phonetic effect as lips are projected when pronouncing "u"). Written with a dakuten (ぶ, ブ), they both represent a "bu" sound, and written with handakuten (ぷ, プ) they both represent a "pu" sound.
The katakana フ is frequently combined with other vowels to represent sounds in foreign words. For example, the word "file" is written in Japanese as ファイル (fairu), with ファ representing a non-native sound, fa.
In certain Okinawan writing systems, ふ/フ can be written as ふぁ, ふぃ, ふぇ to make both fa, fi, and fe sounds as well as representing the sounds hwa, hwi, and hwe. In the Ryukyu University system, fa/hwa is written using the wa kana instead, ふゎ/フヮ. In the Ainu language the katakana with a handakuten プ can be written as a small ㇷ゚ to represent a final p sound. In the Sakhalin dialect, フ without a handakuten can be written as small ㇷ to represent a final h sound after an u sound (ウㇷ uh).
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 65420 |
UTF-8 | EF BE 8C |
UTF-16 | FF 8C |
UTF-32 | 00 00 FF 8C |
URL-Quoted | %EF%BE%8C |
HTML hex reference | フ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | フ |
Adobe Glyph List | hukatakanahalfwidth |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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1.1 (1993) | |
HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HU | |
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