U+115B "ᅛ" Hangul Choseong Nieun-Sios Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+115B "ᅛ" Hangul Choseong Nieun-Sios is a combining mark used in the Korean Hangul writing system to represent the initial consonant cluster of the sounds 'n' and 's' (nieun and sios) that appears at the beginning of a syllable. This character belongs to the Hangul Jamo block and serves as a modern addition for accurately transcribing certain Korean morphemes or loanwords where this specific consonant blend occurs in the initial position, though it is not commonly seen in standard modern Korean orthography.

General Properties

Code Point U+115B
Version Added 5.2
Name Hangul Choseong Nieun-Sios
Block Hangul Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᅛ
HTML Hex Encoding ᅛ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x85 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x115B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000115B
C/C++/Java Escape \u115b

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