HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK character

HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK
U+FF9F
65439
ﾟ
ﾟ
Lm (Modifier Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK is a modifier letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of HALFWIDTH KATAKANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Modifier Letter (Lm) refers to characters that are small, typically superscript or subscript, letters used to modify the meaning of another character. These are not full letters in themselves but serve to modify other characters in linguistic or phonetic contexts.

This character belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. The Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block contains characters that are variants of standard characters, designed to be used in East Asian typography. Halfwidth forms are narrower versions of characters, while fullwidth forms are wider, designed to fit the grid layout used in East Asian text. This block is essential for proper rendering of text in languages like Japanese and Chinese, where halfwidth and fullwidth characters are commonly used in digital typography to achieve the desired visual effect..