U+FFA6 "ﾦ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun-Hieuh Unicode Character

U+FFA6 "ﾦ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun-Hieuh is a typographic variant of the Hangul consonant cluster that combines the sounds of nieun (ㄴ) and hieuh (ㅎ), rendered in a halfwidth form that occupies half the typical character width, a style primarily used in East Asian text environments for compatibility with older or fixed-width character grids. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed to match the width of standard ASCII characters when mixed with Western text, and represents a specific digraph in the Korean writing system, though its actual usage in modern computing is relatively rare compared to its fullwidth counterpart.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFA6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun-Hieuh
Unicode 1.0 Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Nieun Hieuh
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"ㄶ" U+3136 Hangul Letter Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾦ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾦ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFA6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFA6
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffa6

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	"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh
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