U+3160 "ㅠ" Hangul Letter Yu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅠ
U+3160 "ㅠ" Hangul Letter Yu is a single jamo, or alphabetic component, representing the vowel sound "yu" as in the English word "you," and it is used in the Korean writing system, Hangul, where it is combined with consonants to form syllabic blocks such as 유. This character belongs to the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode, which was designed to maintain compatibility with pre-existing Korean character encoding standards. In modern orthography, ㅠ is typically displayed as a vertical column with a short horizontal line and a small hook on the right side, distinguishing it from other similar vowel jamo, and it plays a fundamental role in accurately writing and pronouncing a wide range of Korean words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3160 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Yu |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅲ" U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3160 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003160 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3160 |
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 | "ᅲ" U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅲ" U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu |
| 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 |