U+FFCC "ᅩ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FFCC "ᅩ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter O is a typographic variant of the Hangul syllable "오" used within East Asian character encoding to allow mixed text with Latin and other scripts to align neatly in monospaced or fixed-width environments, as it occupies only half the standard ideographic width. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which was originally designed for compatibility with legacy character sets like KSC 5601 and Shift JIS. This character represents the vowel "오" in a visually condensed form, making it useful for contexts where space conservation or consistent character alignment is necessary, though it is rarely encountered in modern digital text due to the prevalence of Unicode normalization and proportional fonts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᅩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᅩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBF 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFFCC |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FFCC |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\uffcc |
Unicode Properties