What is the difference between Hangul Jongseong Sios and Hangul Choseong Sios?

Hangul Jongseong Sios is U+11BA in the Hangul Jamo block. Hangul Choseong Sios is U+1109 in the Hangul Jamo block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Hangul Jongseong Sios?

The HTML entity for Hangul Jongseong Sios (U+11BA) is ᆺ.

What is the HTML entity for Hangul Choseong Sios?

The HTML entity for Hangul Choseong Sios (U+1109) is ᄉ.

Are Hangul Jongseong Sios and Hangul Choseong Sios the same Unicode character?

No. Hangul Jongseong Sios is U+11BA (decimal 4538) and Hangul Choseong Sios is U+1109 (decimal 4361). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Hangul Jongseong Sios and Hangul Choseong Sios?

Hangul Jongseong Sios (U+11BA) encodes as E1 86 BA in UTF-8. Hangul Choseong Sios (U+1109) encodes as E1 84 89 in UTF-8.

Hangul Jongseong Sios vs Hangul Choseong Sios

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

ᆺ

Hangul Jongseong Sios

U+11BA

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ᄉ

Hangul Choseong Sios

U+1109

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Property Comparison

Property	Hangul Jongseong Sios	Hangul Choseong Sios
Codepoint	`U+11BA`	`U+1109`
Decimal	`4538`	`4361`
HTML Entity	`ᆺ`	`ᄉ`
HTML Decimal	`ᆺ`	`ᄉ`
HTML Hex	`ᆺ`	`ᄉ`
UTF-8	`E1 86 BA`	`E1 84 89`
UTF-16	`11 BA`	`11 09`
UTF-32	`000011BA`	`00001109`
CSS Escape	`\11BA`	`\1109`
JS Escape	`\u11BA`	`\u1109`
Python Escape	`\u11BA`	`\u1109`
URL Encoded	`%E1%86%BA`	`%E1%84%89`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Hangul Jamo`	`Hangul Jamo`
Script	`Hangul`	`Hangul`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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