U+A97B "ꥻ" Hangul Choseong Hieuh-Sios Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥻ
U+A97B "ꥻ" Hangul Choseong Hieuh-Sios is a typographic element from the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, used in the Korean writing system to represent a compound initial consonant cluster. Specifically, it combines the sounds of the "hieuh" (ㅎ) and "sios" (ㅅ) consonants into a single syllable-initial character, which was historically employed to denote specific phonetic variations in the Korean language, particularly in older or more specialized orthographic contexts. This character is therefore an important part of preserving the precise representation of archaic or dialectal Korean pronunciation, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Hangul writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A97B |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Hieuh-Sios |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA97B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A97B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua97b |