U+314C "ㅌ" Hangul Letter Thieuth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅌ
U+314C "ㅌ" Hangul Letter Thieuth is a consonant jamo representing the aspirated alveolar plosive sound, pronounced like the 't' in the English word "top" with a strong burst of air. It functions as a building block within the Hangul script, used to form syllables by combining with vowels in either initial or final positions, such as in the word "타자" (taja) meaning typing. Historically, the name "Thieuth" derives from the Korean letter's traditional linguistic designation, and its shape is based on the outline of a tongue touching the upper palate, reflecting the phonetic principles of King Sejong's 15th century creation of the alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+314C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Thieuth |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Tieut |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄐ" U+1110 Hangul Choseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x314C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000314C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u314c |
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 | "ᄐ" U+1110 Hangul Choseong Thieuth |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄐ" U+1110 Hangul Choseong Thieuth |
| 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 |