U+A96D "ꥭ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Cieuc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A96D "ꥭ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Cieuc is a rare and specialized letter from the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, used primarily in historical or early modern Korean orthography to represent a composite initial consonant sound, combining the phonetic elements of a 'rieul' (ㄹ) and a 'cieuc' (ㅈ) into a single leading consonant cluster. This character is not part of modern standard Korean writing, as contemporary Hangul arranges its consonants sequentially without such ligatures, but it survives in Unicode as a resource for scholars, linguists, and archivists studying medieval or reformed spellings of the Korean language. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital texts can accurately preserve and display these older character forms without approximation, maintaining fidelity to the original written sources.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꥭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꥭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0xA5 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA96D |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A96D |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua96d |
Unicode Properties