U+3161 "ㅡ" Hangul Letter Eu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅡ
U+3161 "ㅡ" Hangul Letter Eu is a primary vowel in the Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the unrounded mid central vowel sound. As a single stroke that is horizontal in shape, it is one of the core vowel letters used to form syllabic blocks in modern Korean, appearing as a component in many common words and syllables. It is distinct from other Hangul vowels due to its flat, linear form and is romanized as "eu" in standard transliteration systems like Revised Romanization of Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3161 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Eu |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅳ" U+1173 Hangul Jungseong Eu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3161 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003161 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3161 |
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 | "ᅳ" U+1173 Hangul Jungseong Eu |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅳ" U+1173 Hangul Jungseong Eu |
| 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 |