U+1108 "ᄈ" Hangul Choseong Ssangpieup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᄈ
U+1108 "ᄈ" Hangul Choseong Ssangpieup is a Jamo or individual letter component from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, specifically representing a tensed or fortis initial consonant sound. It corresponds to the doubled letter “ㅃ” in standard Korean orthography, which is a strong, unaspirated bilabial plosive similar to the sound in the English word “spy” but pronounced with a tighter glottal tension. This character appears exclusively as a leading consonant in a syllable block and is part of the Unicode block for Hangul Jamo, serving as a building block for encoding and displaying Korean text in digital systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1108 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Ssangpieup |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᄈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᄈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x84 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1108 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001108 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1108 |