U+FFB3 "ﾳ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangpieup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FFB3 "ﾳ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangpieup is a typographic variant of the fullwidth Hangul consonant 'ㅃ' representing a tense bilabial stop sound in the Korean alphabet, but it is encoded in a halfwidth form to match the fixed width of older East Asian character grid systems, particularly for use in terminal emulators or early computing environments where space was limited. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block, and it is typically displayed at half the horizontal width of its fullwidth counterpart, allowing it to align neatly within monospaced text alongside Latin letters or symbols. The character itself corresponds to the doubled or reinforced 'bieup' consonant, which is used in standard Hangul syllables for a stronger pronunciation, but the halfwidth variant is rarely used in modern digital text due to the prevalence of proportional fonts and Unicode normalization.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﾳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﾳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBE 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFFB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FFB3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\uffb3 |
Unicode Properties