U+A96A "ꥪ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Ssangpieup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥪ
U+A96A "ꥪ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Ssangpieup is a complex initial consonant symbol used in the historical or archaic representation of the Korean Hangul script, specifically encoding a combination of the sounds for "rieul" (ㄹ) and "ssangpieup" (ㅃ). This character belongs to the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which includes letters that represent initial consonant clusters or digraphs not found in modern standard Korean. Its purpose is to facilitate the accurate transcription of Middle Korean or dialectal pronunciations, where such combined consonantal sounds like a single leading syllable block might occur.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A96A |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Rieul-Ssangpieup |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA96A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A96A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua96a |