U+11F8 "ᇸ" Hangul Jongseong Hieuh-Pieup Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+11F8 "ᇸ" Hangul Jongseong Hieuh-Pieup is a complex consonant cluster used in the Hangul writing system to represent the final consonant sound of a syllable, specifically combining the sound values of "hieuh" (ㅎ) and "pieup" (ㅂ). It belongs to the Hangul Jamo block of Unicode and is categorized as a jongseong, or a final consonant letter that appears at the bottom of a Korean syllabic block. This character is historically attested in Middle Korean but is not used in Modern Hangul, primarily serving the purpose of preserving archaic orthography or enabling scholarly and linguistic studies of older Korean texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+11F8
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Jongseong Hieuh-Pieup
Block Hangul Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᇸ
HTML Hex Encoding ᇸ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x87 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x11F8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000011F8
C/C++/Java Escape \u11f8

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 T Jamo
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type Trailing 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=T
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter