U+3144 "ㅄ" Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅄ
U+3144 "ㅄ" Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios is a precomposed Hangul jamo representing a double consonant cluster, specifically a combination of the consonants pieup (ㅂ) and sios (ㅅ). This character is used in the Korean writing system to denote the sound sequence at the end of a syllable block, such as in the word "값" (value), where it represents a final consonant cluster. It belongs to the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode and is primarily utilized in modern and historical Korean orthography to maintain the full representation of syllable-final consonant combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3144 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Bieub Sios |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄡ" U+1121 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3144 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003144 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3144 |
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 | "ᄡ" U+1121 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄡ" U+1121 Hangul Choseong Pieup-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 |