U+FF8B HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HI

The Unicode character U+FF8B, officially named HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HI, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Half And Full Forms block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Kana script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is Unknown and has halfwidth in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.