U+A978 "ꥸ" Hangul Choseong Ssangcieuc-Hieuh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥸ
U+A978 "ꥸ" Hangul Choseong Ssangcieuc-Hieuh is a rare and specialized consonant cluster from the Hangul script, representing a doubled initial sound combining "Ssangcieuc" (a fortis or tense 'j' sound) with "Hieuh" (an 'h' sound). This character is part of the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which was encoded to support archaic or obsolete letters used in early Korean writing, particularly for representing sounds not found in modern standard Korean. As a choseong or initial consonant, it would have been used at the beginning of a syllable in historical texts, but it is not employed in contemporary Korean orthography and is of interest primarily to linguists, historians, and digital typographers working with Old Korean manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A978 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Ssangcieuc-Hieuh |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA978 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A978 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua978 |