U+FFB0 "ﾰ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Hieuh Unicode Character

U+FFB0 "ﾰ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Hieuh is a typographic variant of the fullwidth Hangul syllable block used in Korean writing, representing a composite consonant that combines the sounds of a "rieul" (ㄹ) and a "hieuh" (ㅎ). This character is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, where it occupies half the typical character width for compatibility with legacy East Asian character encodings and monospaced display environments. Its primary role is to preserve phonetic accuracy in digital texts, particularly when rendering Hangul in fixed-width contexts like old terminals or certain text-based user interfaces, though it is rarely used in modern Korean digital communication due to the prevalence of fullwidth Hangul.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFB0
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Rieul-Hieuh
Unicode 1.0 Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Lieul Hieuh
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"ㅀ" U+3140 Hangul Letter Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFB0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFB0
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffb0

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	"ᄚ" U+111A Hangul Choseong Rieul-Hieuh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᄚ" U+111A Hangul Choseong Rieul-Hieuh
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