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

Code Point U+FFCC
Version Added 1.1
Name Halfwidth Hangul Letter O
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Narrow
Decomposition Mapping "ㅗ" U+3157 Hangul Letter O

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

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 "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O
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