U+FFAC "ﾬ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Pieup Unicode Character

U+FFAC "ﾬ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Pieup is a typographic variant used in contexts requiring compact text, such as early computer terminal displays or East Asian character-width constraints, where it represents the combined Korean consonant cluster "ㄹㅍ" (rieul and pieup) in half the usual width of a full Hangul syllable block. This character belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed for compatibility with legacy systems that allocate fixed, narrow cell widths for text rendering, and it does not have its own inherent pronunciation but rather appears as a visual element within older text encodings or numeric environments requiring space efficiency.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFAC
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Pieup
Unicode 1.0 Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Lieul Bieub
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"ㄼ" U+313C Hangul Letter Rieul-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾬ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾬ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFAC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFAC
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffac

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	"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup
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