U+FFCB "ￋ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FFCB "ￋ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ye is a halfwidth version of the Hangul letter representing the syllable "Ye," designed to fit within a single character cell in legacy East Asian character encoding systems, where fullwidth characters occupy two cells. It is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block in Unicode, which was created to maintain compatibility with older text environments like early computer terminals and certain Japanese or Korean character sets that used a fixed grid of halfwidth and fullwidth characters. This specific character represents the Korean syllable "예" (ye) in a condensed form, thereby allowing for more compact text layout without altering pronunciation or meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFCB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Hangul Letter Ye |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ㅖ" U+3156 Hangul Letter Ye |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFCB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFCB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffcb |
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 | "ᅨ" U+1168 Hangul Jungseong Ye |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅨ" U+1168 Hangul Jungseong Ye |
| 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 |