U+115E "ᅞ" Hangul Choseong Tikeut-Rieul Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+115E "ᅞ" Hangul Choseong Tikeut-Rieul is a precomposed letter from the Hangul Jamo block, representing an archaic or obsolete initial consonant cluster in the Korean writing system. This character combines the sounds of a "tikeut" (ㄷ, similar to a d or t sound) and a "rieul" (ㄹ, similar to an l or r sound) into a single leading consonant cluster that was historically used to write Old or Middle Korean, but it is no longer used in modern standard Hangul. Its inclusion in Unicode aids in the accurate digital representation and study of historical Korean texts, ensuring that such linguistic artifacts can be preserved and analyzed without loss of typographic fidelity.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᅞ
HTML Hex Encoding ᅞ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x85 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x115E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000115E
C/C++/Java Escape \u115e

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