U+FFDC "ￜ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ￜ
U+FFDC "ￜ" Halfwidth Hangul Letter I is a typographic variant of the standard Hangul letter ㅣ, designed for use in contexts where characters occupy exactly half the width of a fullwidth character, such as in older computer terminals or fixed-width CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) text environments. This halfwidth form allows the letter to align neatly alongside Latin characters or other halfwidth symbols in monospaced layouts, preserving visual consistency without occupying a full square space. While largely historical, it remains part of the Unicode standard for compatibility with legacy systems and documents that require precise vertical and horizontal spacing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFDC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Hangul Letter I |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ㅣ" U+3163 Hangul Letter I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFDC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffdc |
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 | "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
| 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 |