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U+FF9F · HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK

Halfwidth Katakana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark

  • CodepointU+FF9F
  • NameHALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
  • Decimal65439
  • BlockHalfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategoryLm — Modifier Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthH — Halfwidth
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+FF9F (ﾟ) is HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK, a modifier letter in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a halfwidth form of U+309A ◌゚ (compatibility decomposition <narrow>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+309A ◌゚. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

How to type ﾟ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8EF BE 9F3 bytes
UTF-16FF9F1 code unit
UTF-320000FF9F4 bytes
HTML decimal&#65439;
HTML hex&#xFF9F;
CSS\FF9Fin content: "…"
JavaScript\uFF9F
JSON\uFF9F
Python\uFF9F
Python\N{HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK}by name
Java / C#\uFF9F
C / C++\uFF9Funiversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{FF9F}
Go\uFF9F
Ruby\uFF9F
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(65439)
URL-encoded%EF%BE%9Fpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+309A ◌゚
NFKDU+309A ◌゚
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+309C゜Katakana-Hiragana Semi-Voiced Sound Mark
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Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms

All in block →
U+FF99ﾙHalfwidth Katakana Letter Ru U+FF9AﾚHalfwidth Katakana Letter Re U+FF9BﾛHalfwidth Katakana Letter Ro U+FF9CﾜHalfwidth Katakana Letter Wa U+FF9DﾝHalfwidth Katakana Letter N U+FF9EﾞHalfwidth Katakana Voiced Sound Mark U+FFA0U+FFA0Halfwidth Hangul Filler U+FFA1ﾡHalfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok U+FFA2ﾢHalfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangkiyeok U+FFA3ﾣHalfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok-Sios U+FFA4ﾤHalfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun U+FFA5ﾥHalfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun-Cieuc