U+117D "ᅽ" Hangul Jungseong Yeo-O Unicode Character

U+117D "ᅽ" Hangul Jungseong Yeo-O is a medieval vowel character from the Hangul script, specifically a "jungseong" or medial vowel, originally used in the Korean writing system. It represents the sound of the diphthong combination "yeo" and "o," written as a vertical line (ㅕ) followed by a horizontal line (ㅗ), and was part of the historical orthography for Old or Middle Korean, particularly in documents from the Joseon dynasty. This character is not used in modern standard Korean, which replaced such complex vowel forms with simpler combinations, but it remains encoded in Unicode for scholarly and historical text representation.