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U+FFA1 Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok

U+FFA1 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+FF00 to U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hangul script.

The glyph is a narrow version of the glyph Hangul Letter Kiyeok. Accordingly, its width in East Asian Text is halfwidth. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+FFA1 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Giyeok (sign: ㄱ; Korean: 기역), also known as kiŭk (Korean: 기윽) in Korean, is one of the Korean Hangul. The Unicode for giyeok is U+3131. Depending on its position, it makes a 'g' or 'k' sound. At the beginning and end of a word it is usually pronounced [k], while after a vowel it is [ɡ]. The IPA pronunciation is [k].

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	65441
UTF-8	EF BE A1
UTF-16	FF A1
UTF-32	00 00 FF A1
URL-Quoted	%EF%BE%A1
HTML hex reference	ﾡ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	ï¾¡

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	HALFWIDTH HANGUL LETTER KIYEOK
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	HALFWIDTH HANGUL LETTER GIYEOG
Block (blk)	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
General Category (gc)	Other Letter
Script (sc)	Hangul
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	narrow
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Case Folding (cf)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Hangul Choseong Kiyeok
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Hangul Choseong Kiyeok
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	halfwidth
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Halfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R