U+FFB2 "ﾲ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Pieup Unicode Character

U+FFB2 "ﾲ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Pieup is a typographic variant of the Korean Hangul consonant 'ㅍ' (pieup), encoded in the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block to occupy half the width of a standard fullwidth character for compatibility with legacy East Asian text systems. This character represents the sound /p/ or /pʰ/ in the Korean alphabet, and its halfwidth form is typically used in environments like old terminal displays or fixed-width fonts where space efficiency is critical. As part of the halfwidth Hangul set, it lacks the full vertical stroke nuance of its fullwidth counterpart and is primarily preserved for historical or rendering consistency rather than modern text.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFB2
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Pieup
Unicode 1.0 Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter 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	"ㅂ" U+3142 Hangul Letter Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾲ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾲ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFB2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFB2
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffb2

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	"ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong 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