U+1115 "ᄕ" Hangul Choseong Nieun-Tikeut Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1115 "ᄕ" Hangul Choseong Nieun-Tikeut is a compound leading consonant (choseong) in the Hangul writing system, representing the initial sound of a syllable formed by combining the consonants Nieun (ㄴ) and Tikeut (ㄷ). This character is part of the Hangul Jamo block, which encodes the individual alphabetic components of the Korean script, and it is used to transcribe historical or archaic pronunciations where such a consonant cluster appeared at the start of a syllable in Middle Korean. While not used in modern standard Korean, it preserves the phonetic complexity of earlier stages of the language and is essential for accurate digital representation of classical texts and linguistic study.

General Properties

Code Point U+1115
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Choseong Nieun-Tikeut
Block Hangul Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᄕ
HTML Hex Encoding ᄕ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x84 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1115
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001115
C/C++/Java Escape \u1115

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul L Jamo
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type Leading Jamo
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=L
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter