U+3142 "ㅂ" Hangul Letter Pieup Unicode Character

U+3142 "ㅂ" Hangul Letter Pieup is a fundamental consonant in the Korean writing system, Hangul, where it represents the sound of a bilabial plosive, similar to the English "b" or "p" depending on its position in a syllable. In modern Korean, ㅂ is used as a designated letter in the alphabet and appears in many common words, such as "바다" (bada) meaning sea or "비" (bi) meaning rain. It also plays a role in the phonetic system where, when placed at the end of a syllable, it is typically pronounced as an unreleased "p" sound. This character is part of a larger set of jamo or alphabetic letters that can be combined to form syllabic blocks, making it an essential building block for encoding and processing the Korean language digitally.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3142
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hangul Letter Pieup
Unicode 1.0 Name	Hangul Letter Bieub
Block	Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ㅂ
HTML Hex Encoding	ㅂ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x85 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3142
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003142
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3142

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	"ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᄇ" U+1107 Hangul Choseong Pieup
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