U+FFBA "ﾺ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Chieuch Unicode Character

U+FFBA "ﾺ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Chieuch is a typographic variant of the Hangul consonant Chieuch (ㅊ), designed to occupy half the width of a standard fullwidth character for compatibility with East Asian text environments that use a monospaced grid, such as older terminal displays or character cell layouts. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which was created to facilitate interoperability between legacy CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) encodings and modern Unicode. In practice, this halfwidth form is used to represent the sound "ch" in Korean romanization, but its usage has declined with the shift to proportional fonts and modern text rendering systems.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFBA
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Chieuch
Unicode 1.0 Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Cieuc
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"ㅊ" U+314A Hangul Letter Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ﾺ
HTML Hex Encoding	ﾺ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBE 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFBA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFBA
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffba

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	"ᄎ" U+110E Hangul Choseong Chieuch
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᄎ" U+110E Hangul Choseong Chieuch
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