U+A971 "ꥱ" Hangul Choseong Mieum-Sios Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥱ
U+A971 "ꥱ" Hangul Choseong Mieum-Sios is a specialized consonant cluster used in the Hangul script, representing the combined initial sounds of "mieum" (ㅁ) and "sios" (ㅅ). This character belongs to the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which encodes precomposed or archaic jamo forms that were historically used in Old Korean or in precise phonetic transcription. As a choseong (initial consonant) character, "ꥱ" indicates a double articulation where the lips and tongue create a blended sound at the start of a syllable. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital representation of historical Korean texts, linguistic research, and typesetting for specialized scholarly works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A971 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Mieum-Sios |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA971 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A971 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua971 |