U+A97C "ꥼ" Hangul Choseong Ssangyeorinhieuh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꥼ
U+A97C "ꥼ" Hangul Choseong Ssangyeorinhieuh is a specialized glyph used in the Old Hangul writing system, representing a double or tense version of the initial consonant "yeorinhieuh." This character is part of the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which was added to Unicode to support historical and obsolete Korean phonetic distinctions. Its name "Ssangyeorinhieuh" translates to "double light hieuh," indicating its function as a fortis (tensed) consonant that modifies pronunciation in archaic or literary Korean texts. This jamo helps preserve the accurate representation of Middle Korean phonology in digital formats, allowing scholars to encode and display rare linguistic features from pre-modern Hangul manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A97C |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Hangul Choseong Ssangyeorinhieuh |
| Block | Hangul Jamo Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꥼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꥼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA5 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA97C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A97C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua97c |