U+A970 "ꥰ" Hangul Choseong Mieum-Tikeut Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A970 "ꥰ" Hangul Choseong Mieum-Tikeut is a specialized syllable-initial consonant cluster used in the Classical Hangul orthography for representing the Korean language, specifically combining the sounds of the "mieum" (ㅁ) and "tikeut" (ㄷ) consonants into a single initial form. This character belongs to the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which was added in Unicode version 5.2 to support historical and linguistic variants of the Korean alphabet. The "choseong" designation indicates it functions exclusively as an initial consonant, reflecting a phonetic nuance that was part of older or more formal Korean writing systems. As a typographic artifact, it helps preserve the precision of Hangul's original syllabic structure for scholarly and archival purposes, though it is not used in modern everyday Korean text.

General Properties

Code Point U+A970
Version Added 5.2
Name Hangul Choseong Mieum-Tikeut
Block Hangul Jamo Extended-A
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꥰ
HTML Hex Encoding ꥰ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA5 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA970
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A970
C/C++/Java Escape \ua970

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