U+FFAE "ᆴ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Thieuth Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FFAE "ᆴ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Thieuth is a typographic variant of the fullwidth Hangul syllable block, specifically representing the consonant cluster equivalent to "ㄼ" (rieul-thieuth) in a narrow, monospaced form that occupies the width of a single Latin character. This character belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, which was designed for compatibility with older East Asian text systems where characters needed to fit into fixed-width grids. Historically, halfwidth characters like this one were used in environments such as early computer terminals or CJK text processing contexts to conserve horizontal space while still representing Korean phonemes. In modern usage, it is rarely needed for standard text but may appear in legacy data or specialized scenarios requiring precise width matching.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᆴ
HTML Hex Encoding ᆴ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBE 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFFAE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FFAE
C/C++/Java Escape \uffae

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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth
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