U+FFCD "ￍ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+FFCD "ￍ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Wa is a typographic variant of the fullwidth Hangul syllable "와" (wa), encoded specifically for compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets like KS C 5601 that used halfwidth forms to conserve space. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, where it is designed to occupy only half the horizontal space of a standard CJK character, making it useful in environments with strict monospaced grid layouts. This character represents the consonant-vowel combination of the Korean letter "ㅘ" (wa) in a compact form and is distinct from its fullwidth counterpart primarily by its narrower glyph width and intended use in mixed-width text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFCD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Hangul Letter Wa |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ㅘ" U+3158 Hangul Letter Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFCD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFCD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffcd |
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 | "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
| 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 |