U+FFAF "ﾯ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Phieuph Unicode Character

U+FFAF "ﾯ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Phieuph is a typographic variant of the Korean Hangul consonant cluster formed by combining the sounds of 'rieul' (ㄹ) and 'phieuph' (ㅍ), represented in a halfwidth form that takes up half the horizontal space of its fullwidth counterpart. This character is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, which was designed to maintain compatibility with legacy character sets used in East Asian computing environments where both widths were necessary for text alignment. While it encodes a phonetic consonant cluster that can be used in Korean writing, its primary modern purpose is for technical or historical data interchange rather than everyday Korean textual communication.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾯ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾯ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFAF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFAF
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffaf

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	"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph
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