U+1143 "ᅃ" Hangul Choseong Ieung-Mieum Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1143 "ᅃ" Hangul Choseong Ieung-Mieum is a rare and non modern initial consonant cluster from the Korean Hangul writing system, representing a combined sound of an "ieung" (a silent or ng initial) and a "mieum" (m sound) to form an initial "m" in certain historical or archaic phonetic contexts. This character belongs to the Hangul Jamo block, which encodes individual alphabetic components used in the Korean script, though it is not used in contemporary standard Korean due to the simplification of syllable initial clusters over time. Its existence highlights the complexity of medieval Korean phonology, where such composite jamo were employed to accurately transcribe sounds from Middle Korean or Chinese loanwords, preserving a linguistic artifact from the 15th century when Hangul was first systematized.

General Properties

Code Point U+1143
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Choseong Ieung-Mieum
Block Hangul Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᅃ
HTML Hex Encoding ᅃ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x85 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1143
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001143
C/C++/Java Escape \u1143

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