U+FFB8 "ﾸ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Cieuc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FFB8 "ﾸ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Cieuc is a halfwidth variant of the Hangul consonant representing the sound of the Korean letter ᄎ, which is a voiceless aspirated alveolar affricate similar to the English "ch" in "chin". It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, designed for compatibility with older East Asian character encodings, and occupies a single character width rather than the typical fullwidth Hangul Jamo. This character is primarily used in contexts like text terminals or legacy systems where horizontal space is limited, ensuring that text can be displayed in a consistent monospaced grid.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFB8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Hangul Letter Cieuc |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Halfwidth Hangul Letter Jieuj |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ㅈ" U+3148 Hangul Letter Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffb8 |
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 | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc |
| 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 |