U+115C "ᅜ" Hangul Choseong Nieun-Cieuc Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+115C "ᅜ" Hangul Choseong Nieun-Cieuc is a combining Jamo character used in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing a digraph consonant formed from "nieun" (ㄴ) and "cieuc" (ㅈ) that serves as an initial consonant cluster. This character belongs to the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block and was introduced to support earlier or historical textual forms, particularly for transcribing Middle Korean where such conjoined initial clusters were more common. While modern Korean orthography typically does not employ this specific digraph, U+115C allows for accurate representation of certain older or linguistically detailed documents, preserving phonetic distinctions that are no longer present in contemporary standard usage.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᅜ
HTML Hex Encoding ᅜ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x85 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x115C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000115C
C/C++/Java Escape \u115c

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