ヘ is the Unicode character HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HE, code point U+FF8D (decimal 65421) in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, added in Unicode 1.1. In HTML write ヘ, and in UTF-8 it is the 3 bytes EF BE 8D.
Codes
| Where | How to write it |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+FF8D |
| Decimal | 65421 |
| UTF-8 bytes | EF BE 8D |
| UTF-16 (big-endian) | FF8D |
| UTF-32 | 0000FF8D |
| HTML decimal | ヘ |
| HTML hex | ヘ |
| CSS | \FF8D |
| JavaScript | \uFF8D |
| JSON | \uFF8D |
| Python | \uFF8D |
| Python by name | \N{HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HE} |
| Java, C# | \uFF8D |
| Rust, Swift | \u{FF8D} |
| Go, C, C++ | \uFF8D |
| URL (percent-encoded) | %EF%BE%8D |
JavaScript and JSON strings store text as UTF-16, so this character is one code unit long. Python 3 strings count code points, so its length there is 1.
Properties
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HE |
| Code point | U+FF8D (decimal 65421) |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (U+FF00–U+FFEF) |
| General category | Lo: Other letter |
| Script | Katakana |
| Bidirectional class | L: Left-to-right |
| Mirrored in right-to-left text | No |
| First in Unicode version | 1.1 |
Decomposition
HALFWIDTH KATAKANA LETTER HE has a compatibility decomposition (narrow) to the sequence below. NFKC and NFKD normalisation replace it with that sequence, which can change how text looks, so use them for search, not for storage.
Nearby in Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
- ナ U+FF85 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Na
- ニ U+FF86 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ni
- ヌ U+FF87 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Nu
- ネ U+FF88 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ne
- ノ U+FF89 Halfwidth Katakana Letter No
- ハ U+FF8A Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ha
- ヒ U+FF8B Halfwidth Katakana Letter Hi
- フ U+FF8C Halfwidth Katakana Letter Hu
- ホ U+FF8E Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ho
- マ U+FF8F Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ma
- ミ U+FF90 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Mi
- ム U+FF91 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Mu
- メ U+FF92 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Me
- モ U+FF93 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Mo
- ヤ U+FF94 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Ya
- ユ U+FF95 Halfwidth Katakana Letter Yu
All 225 characters: Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms.
Official reference
Questions people ask
- What is the HTML code for ヘ?
- Use ヘ (decimal) or ヘ (hex).
- What is the UTF-8 encoding of U+FF8D?
- EF BE 8D (hex), 3 bytes. In a URL it is %EF%BE%8D.
- How do I write U+FF8D in JavaScript or Python?
- JavaScript: \uFF8D. Python: \uFF8D.
Source
Unicode Character Database 18.0.0 (Unicode License v3); HTML entity names from the WHATWG HTML Standard (CC BY 4.0). The encodings above are computed from the code point and checked against Python's encoders. How the character looks depends on your fonts.
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