U+FFCA "ᅧ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Yeo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FFCA "ᅧ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Yeo is a typographic variant of the Korean Hangul syllable component "여" (yeo), encoded in the halfwidth form as part of the Unicode block designated for compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets where characters occupy half the width of a standard fullwidth character. This specific character represents the syllable "yeo" in a narrower visual form, commonly used alongside other halfwidth Hangul letters in contexts such as legacy terminal displays, early computer systems, or text environments requiring fixed-width formatting without full double-byte spacing. Its primary function is to ensure faithful rendering of historical or system-specific text that relies on these reduced-width characters, preserving the correct phonetic value while adapting to spatial constraints.

General Properties

Code Point U+FFCA
Version Added 1.1
Name Halfwidth Hangul Letter Yeo
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Narrow
Decomposition Mapping "ㅕ" U+3155 Hangul Letter Yeo

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᅧ
HTML Hex Encoding ᅧ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBF 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFFCA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FFCA
C/C++/Java Escape \uffca

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 "ᅧ" U+1167 Hangul Jungseong Yeo
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᅧ" U+1167 Hangul Jungseong Yeo
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