U+315B "ㅛ" Hangul Letter Yo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅛ
U+315B "ㅛ" Hangul Letter Yo is one of the vowels in the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, representing the sound "yo" as in the English word "yogurt" or the Korean word 요리 (yori), meaning cooking or dish. It forms a core component of the Korean writing system, where it can appear as an independent syllable or combine with initial consonants to create complex syllabic blocks, such as in 교 (gyo) or 표 (pyo). This character is encoded in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block of Unicode, a subset designed primarily for compatibility with older Korean character sets, and it plays a vital role in both written and spoken Korean, facilitating the representation of a common high-front rounded vowel sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+315B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Yo |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅭ" U+116D Hangul Jungseong Yo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x315B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000315B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u315b |
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 | "ᅭ" U+116D Hangul Jungseong Yo |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅭ" U+116D Hangul Jungseong Yo |
| 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 |