U+FFC5 "ￅ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Yae Unicode Character

U+FFC5 "ￅ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Yae is a typographic variant of the Hangul syllable "얄" (yae), designed to occupy half the width of a standard fullwidth CJK character as part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block. This character was originally intended for use in legacy East Asian text environments, such as older terminals or early computer systems, where characters needed to be displayed in a fixed-width grid, allowing Hangul to fit alongside halfwidth Latin letters and digits. As a halfwidth form, it preserves the phonetic value of the fullwidth "얄" but is now less commonly used in modern digital typography, mostly appearing in historical or specialized contexts where compatibility with older character sets is required.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FFC5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Yae
Block	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Narrow
Decomposition Mapping	"ㅒ" U+3152 Hangul Letter Yae

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ￅ
HTML Hex Encoding	ￅ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xBF 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFFC5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FFC5
C/C++/Java Escape	\uffc5

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	"ᅤ" U+1164 Hangul Jungseong Yae
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᅤ" U+1164 Hangul Jungseong Yae
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