U+FFBE "ﾾ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Hieuh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FFBE "ﾾ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Hieuh is a typographic variant of the Korean Hangul consonant "ㅎ" (hieuh), designed to occupy a single halfwidth character cell rather than the standard fullwidth space typical of most Hangul jamo. This character belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which was originally developed to ensure compatibility with legacy East Asian character encoding systems, such as certain shift-JIS standards, that used halfwidth characters for compatibility with Western text layouts. While it represents the same phonetic sound as its fullwidth counterpart, the halfwidth form is narrower in appearance, making it useful for situations where precise horizontal spacing is needed, such as in terminal interfaces or mixed-language typography. Though the character can still be used in modern digital text, it is considered a legacy feature, and its use has largely been replaced by fullwidth characters or standard Unicode Hangul jamo in contemporary writing systems.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ﾾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ﾾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBE 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFFBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FFBE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\uffbe |
Unicode Properties