U+A976 "ꥶ" Hangul Choseong Ieung-Rieul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥶ
U+A976 "ꥶ" Hangul Choseong Ieung-Rieul is a letter from the Hangul compatibility block that represents an initial consonant cluster in the Korean writing system. Specifically, it encodes the combination of the "ieung" (ㅇ, a silent placeholder sound) and "rieul" (ㄹ, an 'l' or 'r' sound) at the beginning of a syllable. This character is part of the extended Hangul repertoire used for historical or dialectal Korean, and it primarily appears in academic or linguistic contexts rather than modern standard Korean. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that older texts and specialized phonetic transcriptions can be accurately preserved and rendered.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A976 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Ieung-Rieul |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA976 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A976 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua976 |