U+FFAA "ﾪ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Kiyeok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FFAA "ﾪ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Kiyeok is a typographic glyph from the halfwidth Hangul block, designed to fit into a single character width for compatibility with older computer systems and East Asian text layouts, particularly in environments where space is limited or where text is mixed with other halfwidth scripts like ASCII or Katakana. It represents a combination of the Korean consonants "rieul" (ㄹ) and "kiyeok" (ㄱ), functioning as a compound initial or final consonant in Hangul syllables, but it is rendered in a narrower form compared to its fullwidth counterpart. This character is rarely used in modern standard Korean typography, as it primarily serves legacy compatibility purposes in digital encoding and historical text processing contexts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﾪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﾪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBE 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFFAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FFAA |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\uffaa |
Unicode Properties