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U+FF71 · HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER A

Halfwidth Katakana Letter A

  • CodepointU+FF71
  • NameHALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER A
  • Decimal65393
  • BlockHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptKatakana
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthH — Halfwidth
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FF71 (ｱ) is HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER A, a letter in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. It belongs to the Katakana script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a halfwidth form of U+30A2 ア (compatibility decomposition <narrow>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+30A2 ア. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ｱ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF BD B13 bytes
UTF-16FF711 code unit
UTF-320000FF714 bytes
HTML decimal&#65393;
HTML hex&#xFF71;
CSS\FF71in content: "…"
JavaScript\uFF71
JSON\uFF71
Python\uFF71
Python\N{HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER A}by name
Java / C#\uFF71
C / C++\uFF71universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FF71}
Go\uFF71
Ruby\uFF71
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65393)
URL-encoded%EF%BD%B1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+30A2 ア
NFKDU+30A2 ア
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Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

All in block →
U+FF6BｫHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small O U+FF6CｬHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small Ya U+FF6DｭHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small Yu U+FF6EｮHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small Yo U+FF6FｯHalfwidth Katakana Letter Small Tu U+FF70ｰHalfwidth Katakana-Hiragana Prolonged Sound Mark U+FF72ｲHalfwidth Katakana Letter I U+FF73ｳHalfwidth Katakana Letter U U+FF74ｴHalfwidth Katakana Letter E U+FF75ｵHalfwidth Katakana Letter O U+FF76ｶHalfwidth Katakana Letter Ka U+FF77ｷHalfwidth Katakana Letter Ki