U+A96A "ꥪ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Ssangpieup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+A96A "ꥪ" Hangul Choseong Rieul-Ssangpieup is a complex initial consonant symbol used in the historical or archaic representation of the Korean Hangul script, specifically encoding a combination of the sounds for "rieul" (ㄹ) and "ssangpieup" (ㅃ). This character belongs to the Hangul Jamo Extended-A block, which includes letters that represent initial consonant clusters or digraphs not found in modern standard Korean. Its purpose is to facilitate the accurate transcription of Middle Korean or dialectal pronunciations, where such combined consonantal sounds like a single leading syllable block might occur.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A96A
Name
Hangul Choseong Rieul-Ssangpieup
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꥪ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꥪ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xA5 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA96A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A96A
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua96a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hangul