U+FFD7 "ᅲ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Yu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+FFD7 "ᅲ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter Yu is a typographic variant of the fullwidth Hangul letter ㅠ, representing the vowel sound "yu" in the Korean writing system. It belongs to the Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms block, where it is encoded at half the usual character width to facilitate compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets and monospaced environments. This halfwidth form is used primarily in contexts where precise vertical alignment or narrow text spacing is required, such as in old terminal displays or certain digital typography.

General Properties

Code Point U+FFD7
Version Added 1.1
Name Halfwidth Hangul Letter Yu
Block Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Narrow
Decomposition Mapping "ㅠ" U+3160 Hangul Letter Yu

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᅲ
HTML Hex Encoding ᅲ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEF 0xBF 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xFFD7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000FFD7
C/C++/Java Escape \uffd7

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 "ᅲ" U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᅲ" U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu
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