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
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