U+3140 "ㅀ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Hieuh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅀ
U+3140 "ㅀ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Hieuh is a single character that represents a digraph in the Hangul alphabet, specifically a combination of the consonants rieul (ㄹ) and hieuh (ㅎ). It is used primarily in Korean in the final consonant position (batchim) of a syllable, where it phonetically influences the following sound through tensing or aspiration. This character belongs to the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block and encodes a composite letter that was historically used in standard Korean orthography, though its independent usage as a distinct jamo has become less common in modern typesetting with the rise of fully composed syllable blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3140 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Rieul-Hieuh |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Lieul Hieuh |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄚ" U+111A Hangul Choseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3140 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003140 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3140 |
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 | "ᄚ" U+111A Hangul Choseong Rieul-Hieuh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄚ" U+111A Hangul Choseong Rieul-Hieuh |
| 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 |