U+FFB9 "ﾹ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangcieuc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FFB9 "ﾹ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangcieuc is a typographic variant of the Hangul consonant ㅆ, representing the double 'ss' sound, and is designed to occupy half the width of a standard fullwidth character for compatibility with East Asian text systems that require fixed-width or monospaced formatting. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, where it serves as a compact representation used in legacy computing environments such as old terminals or CJK character sets, allowing the character to align neatly within grids intended for Latin letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFB9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssangcieuc |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ssang 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 | "ㅉ" U+3149 Hangul Letter Ssangcieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ﾹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ﾹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBE 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffb9 |
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 | "ᄍ" U+110D Hangul Choseong Ssangcieuc |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄍ" U+110D Hangul Choseong Ssangcieuc |
| 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 |