U+3133 "ㄳ" Hangul Letter Kiyeok-Sios Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3133 "ㄳ" Hangul Letter Kiyeok-Sios is a composite consonant used in the Korean writing system, specifically representing the combination of the initial consonant "Kiyeok" (ㄱ) and "Sios" (ㅅ). This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which provides compatibility with preexisting encoding standards for Korean text. In modern standard Korean, U+3133 appears primarily as a batchim or final consonant, and its pronunciation typically merges the two component sounds into a single final consonant cluster, though it is often realized as a tense [k̚] sound before vowels in connected speech. Historically, it was more widely used in older forms of Korean orthography, but today it is mainly encountered in specialized contexts or when representing certain morphological forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+3133
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Letter Kiyeok-Sios
Unicode 1.0 Name Hangul Letter Giyeog Sios
Block Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㄳ
HTML Hex Encoding ㄳ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x84 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3133
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003133
C/C++/Java Escape \u3133

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Changes When NFKC Casefolded Yes
NFKC Casefold "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter