U+1149 "ᅉ" Hangul Choseong Ieung-Chieuch Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1149 "ᅉ" Hangul Choseong Ieung-Chieuch is a rarely used initial consonant cluster in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing a conjunction of the sounds for the silent placeholder ㅇ (ieung) and the aspirated ㅊ (chieuch). This composite character was historically employed in Middle Korean texts to denote a specific phonetic blend that is no longer productive in modern Korean, where such clusters are absent from standard orthography. It belongs to the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which encodes obsolete or specialized jamo, and effectively functions as a typographic or scholarly artifact rather than a contemporary textual element.

General Properties

Code Point U+1149
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Choseong Ieung-Chieuch
Block Hangul Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᅉ
HTML Hex Encoding ᅉ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x85 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1149
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001149
C/C++/Java Escape \u1149

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