U+116E "ᅮ" Hangul Jungseong U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+116E "ᅮ" Hangul Jungseong U is a vowel component of the Korean Hangul writing system, specifically representing the "jungseong" or medial vowel sound "u" as in the English word "boot." This character is classified within the Hangul Jamo block of Unicode, designed for use in the systematic representation of syllable blocks in modern and classical Korean text. It appears as a single vertical line with a short horizontal stroke to its right, symbolizing the phonetic shape of the vowel when combined with initial consonants to form complete syllables like 후, 구, or 수.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+116E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Jungseong U |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᅮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᅮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x85 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x116E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000116E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u116e |
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 | U |
| 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 |