U+FFB5 "ﾵ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Sios Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FFB5 "ﾵ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Sios is a typographic variant representing the Korean consonant “ㅅ” (sios) in a halfwidth form, which occupies half the width of a fullwidth character for compatibility with older computer systems and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) text environments. This character, part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block (U+FF00 to U+FFEF), is used primarily in contexts where space is constrained, such as in terminal displays or monospaced fonts, and it maps to the same sound value as its fullwidth counterpart while maintaining visual alignment with adjacent halfwidth Latin or punctuation characters. Though less common in modern Korean digital text, it remains a useful legacy code point for processing historical data or specialized formatting.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﾵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﾵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBE 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFFB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FFB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\uffb5 |
Unicode Properties