U+A972 "ꥲ" Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios-Thieuth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥲ
U+A972 "ꥲ" Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios-Thieuth is a complex, precomposed consonant cluster used in the Old Hangul or Archaic Hangul script to represent a single initial syllable sound combining the phonetic elements of a bilabial plosive (p), a sibilant (s), and a dental or alveolar stop (t or th). This character is part of the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which encodes additional consonant and vowel combinations required for accurately rendering historical Korean texts. Its specific typographic form reflects the stacked or conjoined structure typical of older Hangul writing, where multiple consonant letters were compressed into a single grapheme to denote a complex onset.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A972 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios-Thieuth |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA972 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A972 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua972 |