U+1159 "ᅙ" Hangul Choseong Yeorinhieuh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1159 "ᅙ" Hangul Choseong Yeorinhieuh is a letter used in the Korean writing system, Hangul, to represent a specific initial consonant sound known as the "light hieuh" or "yeorinhieuh." Unlike the standard hieuh (ㅎ), which has a more pronounced aspiration, this character indicates a weaker, breathy articulation at the beginning of a syllable and is historically associated with the transcription of certain Middle Korean or dialectal sounds. It belongs to the Hangul Jamo block and is typically employed in linguistic or academic contexts to accurately denote phonetic variations, making it a specialized but important element for precise representation of Korean phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1159 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Yeorinhieuh |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᅙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᅙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x85 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1159 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001159 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1159 |