U+FFCE "ￎ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Wae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+FFCE "ￎ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Wae is a typographic variant used within the context of East Asian character encoding, specifically designed for compatibility with older text systems that required a fixed halfwidth glyph. It represents the Korean Hangul syllable "Wae" (ㅙ) but rendered in a narrower, halfwidth form, taking up half the horizontal space of a standard fullwidth character. This character is part of the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Unicode block, which was created to facilitate digital text interchange between legacy CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) environments. While it can be used in modern text, its practical application is largely historical or limited to specific situations where preserving original halfwidth character spacing is necessary.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ￎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ￎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEF 0xBF 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xFFCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000FFCE |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\uffce |
Unicode Properties