U+313D "ㄽ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Sios Unicode Character

U+313D "ㄽ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Sios is a composite Hangul jamo that represents the final consonant cluster in the Korean writing system, specifically the combination of the Rieul (ㄹ) and Sios (ㅅ) sounds. It is used in certain Korean syllables, such as in the word "닭" (dalk) as part of its final consonant sound, though in modern Korean pronunciation, the Sios component often influences the following syllable rather than being pronounced distinctly. This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode, which includes precomposed letters designed for compatibility with legacy encoding standards, and it differs from the modern standard of using individual initial, medial, and final jamo in modern Korean text processing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+313D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hangul Letter Rieul-Sios
Unicode 1.0 Name	Hangul Letter Lieul Sios
Block	Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ㄽ
HTML Hex Encoding	ㄽ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x84 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x313D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000313D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u313d

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	"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-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