U+FFBC "ﾼ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Thieuth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FFBC "ﾼ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Thieuth is a typographic variant of the Hangul letter representing the sound "thieuth," which corresponds to the Korean consonant ㅅ or ㅆ depending on context, but specifically refers to the obsolete or archaic Jamo ㅿ used in early Hangul to denote a voiced fricative sound similar to the English "z." This character is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block and is designed to occupy half the width of a typical fullwidth character, making it useful in East Asian text environments where character spacing is optimized for monospaced fonts or legacy computing systems. Its halfwidth nature allows it to integrate seamlessly with other halfwidth characters in digital encoding, and while rarely used in modern Korean, it preserves a historical orthographic element from Middle Korean.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﾼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﾼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBE 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFFBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FFBC |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\uffbc |
Unicode Properties