U+118D "ᆍ" Hangul Jungseong U-U Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+118D "ᆍ" Hangul Jungseong U-U is a Hangul compatibility Jamo used to represent the vowel sound "U-U" in the Korean writing system, functioning specifically as a medial vowel component within a syllable block. As a Jungseong, or vowel, it is part of the historical and modern repertoire of Hangul characters that combine with an initial consonant and a final consonant to form complete Korean syllables. This character is encoded in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which allows for backward compatibility with older Korean text encoding standards. Although it is not commonly used in contemporary standard Korean, it may appear in linguistic documentation or specialized text to denote a specific vowel articulation within the syllable structure.

General Properties

Code Point U+118D
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Jungseong U-U
Block Hangul Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᆍ
HTML Hex Encoding ᆍ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x86 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0x118D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000118D
C/C++/Java Escape \u118d

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 V Jamo
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type Vowel 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=V
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter