U+FFAD "ﾭ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Sios Unicode Character

U+FFAD "ﾭ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Sios is a typographic variant of the consonant cluster representing the Korean Hangul jamo combination of rieul (ㄹ) and sios (ㅅ), used primarily in halfwidth form for compatibility with older East Asian text systems that required fixed-width characters. This specific glyph occupies the width of a single ASCII character, unlike its fullwidth counterpart, and was included in Unicode to support legacy character sets where halfwidth Hangul letters were encoded separately. It is not commonly used in modern Korean text, but it may appear in historical digital contexts or in specialized data where space efficiency was prioritized over standard typographic conventions.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFAD
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFAD
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffad

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	"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios
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