U+FFB6 "ﾶ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangsios Unicode Character

U+FFB6 "ﾶ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangsios is a typographic variant of the fullwidth Hangul letter ᄊ, representing the doubled or tense 'ss' sound in the Korean alphabet. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, where it was encoded to fit within a single byte width for compatibility with older terminal systems and East Asian character grids. Unlike its fullwidth counterpart, which occupies two character cells in monospaced fonts, this halfwidth version occupies only one cell, making it useful for precise text alignment in contexts like CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) encoding environments. Despite its reduced width, it maintains the same phonetic value and orthographic function as the fullwidth character.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFB6
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangsios
Unicode 1.0 Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssang 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	"ㅆ" U+3146 Hangul Letter Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾶ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾶ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFB6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFB6
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffb6

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	"ᄊ" U+110A Hangul Choseong Ssangsios
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᄊ" U+110A Hangul Choseong Ssangsios
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