U+FFB4 "ᄡ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FFB4 "ᄡ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios is a typographic variant of the Hangul consonant cluster representing the combined sounds of pieup and sios, which corresponds to the character 프 in its fullwidth form. This halfwidth character is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, specifically designed for use in contexts where character width must be standardized, such as in legacy East Asian computer systems or fixed-width text environments. It appears as a narrow, compressed version of the fullwidth letter, occupying the same horizontal space as standard ASCII characters to maintain alignment in monospaced layouts. The character is not typically used in modern Korean writing but serves a historical and technical role in preserving compatibility with older CJK encoding standards and terminal interfaces.

General Properties

Code Point U+FFB4
Version Added 1.1
Name Halfwidth Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios
Unicode 1.0 Name Halfwidth Hangul Letter Bieub Sios
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Narrow
Decomposition Mapping "ㅄ" U+3144 Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᄡ
HTML Hex Encoding ᄡ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBE 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFFB4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FFB4
C/C++/Java Escape \uffb4

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 "ᄡ" U+1121 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᄡ" U+1121 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios
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