U+A962 "ꥢ" Hangul Choseong Tikeut-Sios Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥢ
U+A962 "ꥢ" Hangul Choseong Tikeut-Sios is a composite initial consonant used in the Korean writing system, representing a combination of the sounds for "t" (Tikeut, ᄃ) and "s" (Sios, ᄉ) in the first position of a syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which was designed to encode archaic or obsolete consonant clusters that were historically present in Middle Korean but are no longer used in modern Hangul. Its primary function is to facilitate the accurate digital representation of historical Korean texts, allowing scholars and linguists to preserve and study the phonetic nuances of early Korean writing without relying on modern simplifications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A962 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Tikeut-Sios |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA962 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A962 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua962 |