U+A96E "ꥮ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Khieukh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥮ
U+A96E "ꥮ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Khieukh is a character used in the Korean Hangul writing system, specifically representing a double consonant initial sound composed of "rieul" (ㄹ) and "khieukh" (ㅋ). This character belongs to the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which contains syllables and initial consonant combinations from early or obsolete forms of Hangul. Historically, it was used to accurately transcribe the Korean language of the 15th century, particularly in texts where precise phonetic representation was required. Today, this character is largely archaic but remains important for scholarly work in historical linguistics and the study of classical Korean literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A96E |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Rieul-Khieukh |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA96E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A96E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua96e |