U+FFC2 "ￂ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ￂ
U+FFC2 "ￂ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter A is a typographic variant of the fullwidth Hangul letter "ㅏ", designed to occupy half the typical width of a CJK character for compatibility with legacy East Asian text systems. Part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, it is primarily used in contexts where text must fit within a fixed monospaced grid, such as in older terminal displays or certain digital character sets. As a halfwidth form of the vowel "a" in the Korean alphabet, it enables mixed-width text layouts without disrupting alignment, particularly when paired with other halfwidth Hangul or Latin characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFC2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Hangul Letter A |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ㅏ" U+314F Hangul Letter A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFC2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFC2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffc2 |
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 | "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
| 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 |