U+FFA5 "ᆬ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun-Cieuc Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FFA5 "ᆬ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun-Cieuc is a halfwidth variant of the Hangul consonant cluster representing the combined sounds of 'nieun' (ㄴ) and 'cieuc' (ㅈ), used in the Korean writing system as part of a larger set of halfwidth characters designed for compatibility with older East Asian character encodings that use fixed halfwidth widths. This specific character occupies a single byte-wide horizontal space in terminal or monospaced environments, distinguishing it from its fullwidth counterpart which takes up twice the width, allowing for more compact text layout in contexts such as legacy computer systems or certain digital displays. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block to facilitate faithful representation of historical textual data.

General Properties

Code Point U+FFA5
Version Added 1.1
Name Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun-Cieuc
Unicode 1.0 Name Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun Jieuj
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Narrow
Decomposition Mapping "ㄵ" U+3135 Hangul Letter Nieun-Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᆬ
HTML Hex Encoding ᆬ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBE 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFFA5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FFA5
C/C++/Java Escape \uffa5

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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc
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