What ｭ means
It marks the “yu” part of a contracted sound. In Japanese, a small ュ after another kana helps spell a combined sound; for example, ｷｭ is read “kyu.” Katakana ユ comes from a fragment of the character 由, and the small form developed as part of this spelling convention.
JIS X 0201 (1969) included compact katakana for computer character sets. Shift JIS and Unicode retained the narrow forms for compatibility. “Halfwidth” describes a character’s width property; the font and layout determine how wide it actually looks.
Usually technical or legacy-looking; it functions as a kana, not an emotional signal.
Alone, ｭ is only a kana fragment; look to its surrounding text for the reading.
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Who writes ｭ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why did a form change ｭ to ユ?
Some forms normalize small kana to full-size kana. As of 2026, SBI Shinsei Bank accepts ｭ but displays small kana as full-size forms when you confirm.
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How to type or find ｭ
- Search it as
- hankaku kana · halfwidth katakana · small yu kana · yōon · kyu
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ｭ\FF6DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.