U+FF8E HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HO

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Decimal / Nº
65422
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
halfwidth
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
Unknown

Character Details

The Unicode character U+FF8E, officially named HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HO, 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.

Representations & Encodings

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65422 Copied!
UTF-8 EF BE 8E Copied!
UTF-16 FF 8E Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 FF 8E Copied!
URL-Quoted %EF%BE%8E Copied!
HTML hex reference ホ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'FF8E' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \uFF8E Copied!
C and C++ \uff8e Copied!
C# \uff8e Copied!
CSS \00FF8E Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(65422) Copied!
Go \uff8e Copied!
JavaScript \uFF8E Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{ff8e} Copied!
JSON \uFF8E Copied!
Java \uFF8E Copied!
Lua \u{FF8E} Copied!
Matlab char(65422) Copied!
Perl \x{FF8E} Copied!
PHP \u{ff8e} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\FF8E' Copied!
PowerShell `u{FF8E} Copied!
Python \uff8e Copied!
Ruby \u{ff8e} Copied!
Rust \u{ff8e} Copied!