U+FFC4 "ￄ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FFC4 "ￄ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ya is a specific glyph within the Unicode standard representing the Hangul syllable "야" (ya) in a halfwidth form, meaning its printed width is approximately half that of a standard fullwidth CJK character. This character originates from Unicode's compatibility block designed to map legacy character sets, such as those used in older Korean text systems or terminal environments, where space efficiency was prioritized. It carries the same semantic value as its fullwidth counterpart but occupies less horizontal space, making it primarily used in contexts like fixed-width displays, vintage computing interfaces, or text formatting where narrow character alignment is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFC4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ya |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ㅑ" U+3151 Hangul Letter Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffc4 |
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 | "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
| 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 |