U+1138 "ᄸ" Hangul Choseong Sios-Khieukh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᄸ
U+1138 "ᄸ" Hangul Choseong Sios-Khieukh is a complex initial consonant cluster in the Hangul writing system, combining the sounds of the Sios (ㅅ) and Khieukh (ㅋ) consonants to represent a single onset sound in the Korean language. This character is part of the Unicode block for Hangul Jamo, which encodes the individual phonetic components used to build complete Hangul syllable blocks. Historically, clusters like ᄸ appeared in Middle Korean but are no longer used in modern Standard Korean, making it a largely historical or specialized character for linguistic study. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that ancient or technical texts can be accurately represented in digital form, preserving the full range of Korean phonological history.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1138 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Sios-Khieukh |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᄸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᄸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x84 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1138 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001138 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1138 |