U+A96A "ꥪ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Ssangpieup Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 L Jamo
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type Leading 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=L
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter