U+117D "ᅽ" Hangul Jungseong Yeo-O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+117D "ᅽ" Hangul Jungseong Yeo-O is a medieval vowel character from the Hangul script, specifically a "jungseong" or medial vowel, originally used in the Korean writing system. It represents the sound of the diphthong combination "yeo" and "o," written as a vertical line (ㅕ) followed by a horizontal line (ㅗ), and was part of the historical orthography for Old or Middle Korean, particularly in documents from the Joseon dynasty. This character is not used in modern standard Korean, which replaced such complex vowel forms with simpler combinations, but it remains encoded in Unicode for scholarly and historical text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+117D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Jungseong Yeo-O |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᅽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᅽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x85 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x117D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000117D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u117d |