U+111D "ᄝ" Hangul Choseong Kapyeounmieum Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+111D "ᄝ" Hangul Choseong Kapyeounmieum is a rarely used initial consonant jamo in the Hangul writing system, representing a labial sound that was historically employed in early Korean philology and orthography. This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block and was used to denote a bilabial nasal or a bilabial stop with a specific phonetic quality, often transcribed in linguistic contexts as a kapyeoun (light or softened) variant of the mieum. Today, it is primarily of interest to scholars studying historical Korean phonology and the evolution of the Hangul script.

General Properties

Code Point U+111D
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Choseong Kapyeounmieum
Block Hangul Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᄝ
HTML Hex Encoding ᄝ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x84 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x111D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000111D
C/C++/Java Escape \u111d

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