U+110B "ᄋ" Hangul Choseong Ieung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᄋ
U+110B "ᄋ" Hangul Choseong Ieung is a Jamo letter used in the Korean writing system to represent the initial consonant sound in a syllable, specifically functioning as a placeholder for a null or silent onset in modern Korean when it appears before a vowel. It is part of the Hangul Jamo block of Unicode, which encodes individual components of the Korean alphabet rather than complete syllabic blocks. Historically, this character also represented the sound /ŋ/ at the beginning of a syllable in older forms of Korean, though that pronunciation has since been lost. In contemporary usage, it serves a crucial orthographic role, ensuring that every Korean syllable block has a required initial consonant, even when no consonant sound is pronounced.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+110B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Ieung |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᄋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᄋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x84 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x110B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000110B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u110b |