U+FFA2 "ﾢ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangkiyeok Unicode Character

U+FFA2 "ﾢ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangkiyeok is a typographic variant of the fullwidth Hangul consonant character representing the doubled "giyeok" (ㄲ) sound, which is a tensed version of the "k" sound in Korean. This halfwidth form is half the visual width of its fullwidth counterpart, designed to fit compactly within legacy East Asian character grids or monospaced text environments, such as those used in older computing systems or terminal displays. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block and is intended for use in contexts where space efficiency is critical, while still representing the same phonetic value as the standard Hangul character in Korean writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFA2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangkiyeok
Unicode 1.0 Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssang Giyeog
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"ㄲ" U+3132 Hangul Letter Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾢ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾢ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFA2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFA2
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffa2

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Halfwidth
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok
Script	Hangul
Script Extensions	Hangul
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter