U+FFA4 "ﾤ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FFA4 "ﾤ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun is a typographic variant of the Korean consonant "ᄂ" (nieun), designed specifically for use in East Asian character encoding contexts where characters are rendered at half the width of a typical fullwidth glyph. This halfwidth form is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, which was originally developed to maintain compatibility with older character sets and terminal displays that use a fixed grid of halfwidth and fullwidth characters. In practice, "ﾤ" represents the initial or final "n" sound in Hangul syllables and is most commonly encountered in legacy computing environments or text systems that require efficient horizontal space usage, rather than in modern standard Korean text.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﾤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﾤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBE 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFFA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FFA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\uffa4 |
Unicode Properties