U+A968 "ꥨ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Mieum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥨ
U+A968 "ꥨ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Mieum is a compound initial consonant used in the Korean writing system, specifically belonging to the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block. It represents a blend of the sounds for "rieul" (ㄹ) and "mieum" (ㅁ) as a single lead consonant, which was historically utilized in medieval Korean orthography to denote a syllable-initial sequence that is no longer standard in modern Hangul. This character is thus an important artifact for scholars studying the phonological evolution of the Korean language, preserving a once-common consonant cluster that has since fallen out of regular use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A968 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Rieul-Mieum |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA968 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A968 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua968 |