U+FFD5 "ᅰ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter We Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FFD5 "ᅰ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter We is a typographic variant of the standard Hangul syllable "웨" (we), specifically designed to occupy half the width of a fullwidth character for compatibility with legacy East Asian character encodings and monospaced text environments. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, which maps fullwidth characters to their narrower counterparts for use in systems that require fixed-width CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts. This character represents the Korean syllable "we" but in a condensed form, often employed in terminal displays, old computer systems, or text where space is constrained. Its appearance is identical to the fullwidth version except for its reduced horizontal advance, ensuring proper alignment in mixed-width text layouts.

General Properties

Code Point U+FFD5
Version Added 1.1
Name Halfwidth Hangul Letter We
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Narrow
Decomposition Mapping "ㅞ" U+315E Hangul Letter We

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᅰ
HTML Hex Encoding ᅰ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBF 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFFD5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FFD5
C/C++/Java Escape \uffd5

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 "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We
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