U+3153 "ㅓ" Hangul Letter Eo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅓ
U+3153 "ㅓ" Hangul Letter Eo is a vowel jamo that represents the sound "eo" as in the English word "run" or "above" and is a fundamental component of the Korean writing system, Hangul. This specific character is part of the Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode, which was designed to map directly to legacy character sets used before the modern Unicode normalization standards. In contemporary Korean, "ㅓ" is used both as an individual letter and in combination with other jamo to form syllabic blocks, contributing to the morphological and phonetic richness of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3153 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Eo |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅥ" U+1165 Hangul Jungseong Eo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3153 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003153 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3153 |
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 | "ᅥ" U+1165 Hangul Jungseong Eo |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅥ" U+1165 Hangul Jungseong Eo |
| 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 |