U+FFED "￭" Halfwidth Black Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
￭
U+FFED "￭" Halfwidth Black Square is a monospaced punctuation symbol that occupies half the width of a standard fullwidth character, originating from the compatibility block of Unicode designed for East Asian text processing. Its appearance is a solid black square shape, and it functions primarily as a visual filler, a list marker, or a component in basic text graphics within environments that require fixed-width character spacing, such as terminal outputs or legacy computer systems. While less commonly used in modern digital fonts, it remains available for interoperability with older character sets like JIS X 0208, where it served as a typographic alternative to other block elements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+FFED |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Halfwidth Black Square |
| Block | Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Narrow |
| Decomposition Mapping | "■" U+25A0 Black Square |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ￭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ￭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEF 0xBF 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xFFED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000FFED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uffed |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Halfwidth |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "■" U+25A0 Black Square |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "■" U+25A0 Black Square |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |