U+FFC3 "ￃ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ae Unicode Character

U+FFC3 "ￃ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ae is a typographic variant of the fullwidth Hangul syllable representing the sound "ae," designed to occupy exactly half the width of a standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character for compatibility with older monospaced text systems and certain digital fonts. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which was created to support East Asian text mixed with Latin script within fixed-width environments, allowing characters like this one to align properly in tables or terminal displays. While modern Unicode usage typically favors standard Hangul syllables, this halfwidth form remains available for legacy data preservation and specific applications requiring consistent character spacing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFC3
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ae
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"ㅐ" U+3150 Hangul Letter Ae

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ￃ
HTML Hex Encoding	ￃ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBF 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFC3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFC3
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffc3

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	"ᅢ" U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᅢ" U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae
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