What ﾃ means
It is the same kana sound in a narrow compatibility form.
An early standardized record for halfwidth Katakana appears in JIS C 6220-1969, a Japanese character set based on ISO 646. It made Katakana available for one-byte electronic interchange, where limited code space and fixed-width equipment favored compact forms.
The fullwidth counterpart is テ. Unicode retains both forms for compatibility with older encodings, while NFKC folds them together. In halfwidth spelling, ﾃﾞ consists of ﾃ followed by a separate voiced sound mark, ﾞ.
Why does ﾃ look narrow?
Its narrow shape reflects an East Asian layout width.
Unicode describes the character’s width for layout; the font draws its visible shape. Fonts can make ﾃ look different without changing its identity or its reading.
Use halfwidth Katakana when a format calls for it. In ordinary Japanese text, テ is the usual form.
How do I type ﾃ?
Microsoft Japanese IME lists F8 for this conversion as of 2026.
Enter テ, choose the conversion candidate, then press F8. Other Japanese input methods may offer a halfwidth-Katakana mode; the exact steps depend on the setup.
Technical and format-bound; its form reflects the text system rather than the writer’s tone.
Unless a format requires halfwidth kana, use テ.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Questions people ask
1Will NFKC turn ﾃ into テ?
Yes. NFKC compatibility normalization folds this width variant to テ; avoid it when the original halfwidth form must be preserved.
How to type ﾃ
ﾃ\FF83Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.