What ﾍ means
It was designed for compact, single-byte Japanese text. JIS C 6220, published in 1969 and later renamed JIS X 0201, included single-byte kana for systems with limited text capacity. Later Japanese standards supported wider text, and Unicode retained both forms for compatibility. ﾍ and ヘ have the same reading. The font and layout determine how narrow ﾍ looks; NFKC normalization changes it to ヘ, which can remove a width distinction that a legacy field requires.
Technical and format-bound; use it when a field or file format asks for halfwidth kana.
A fullwidth-only field may reject ﾍ even though it reads the same as ヘ.
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Who writes ﾍ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ﾍ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ﾍ
- Also called
- halfwidth kana he · hankaku kana he · narrow katakana he
- Search it as
- halfwidth kana · hankaku kana · halfwidth katakana · halfwidth he · narrow kana · ﾍ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ﾍ\FF8DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.