U+1163 "ᅣ" Hangul Jungseong Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᅣ
U+1163 "ᅣ" Hangul Jungseong Ya is a vowel jamo used in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the diphthong /ja/ as in the English word "yard." It belongs to the category of jungseong, or medial vowels, and is specifically the 'ya' sound, which combines a brief 'y' glide with the vowel 'a.' This character is typically used in modern and historical Korean text as a composing element for syllabic blocks, where it appears as the middle component alongside initial consonants and optional final consonants to form complete Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1163 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Jungseong Ya |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᅣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᅣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x85 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1163 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001163 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1163 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Maybe |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Maybe |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Hangul V Jamo |
| Script | Hangul |
| Script Extensions | Hangul |
| Hangul Syllable Type | Vowel Jamo |
| Jamo Short Name | YA |
| 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=V |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |