U+1140 "ᅀ" Hangul Choseong Pansios Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᅀ
U+1140 "ᅀ" Hangul Choseong Pansios is a historical letter from the Hangul alphabet, representing a sound that was used in early forms of Korean writing. It corresponds to a voiced alveolar fricative, similar to the English "z" sound, and is known as "pansios" or "banchieum" in traditional Korean linguistics. This character is part of the Hangul Jamo block in Unicode and is primarily of interest to scholars studying Middle Korean phonology and the evolution of the Korean script, as it is no longer used in modern Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1140 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Pansios |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᅀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᅀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x85 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1140 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001140 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1140 |