U+3167 "ㅧ" Hangul Letter Nieun-Sios Unicode Character

U+3167 "ㅧ" Hangul Letter Nieun-Sios is a composite jamo or letter from the Korean Hangul writing system, representing a consonant cluster formed by combining the sounds of nieun (ㄴ) and sios (ㅅ). This character was used in traditional Korean orthography to write an initial or final consonant cluster that produced a sound akin to "ns" in English, though it has largely fallen out of common use in modern standard Korean, which tends to break such clusters into separate letters or simplify them. Today, its inclusion in Unicode serves primarily to support historical texts, scholarly works, and legacy digital documents where accurate representation of older Hangul forms is needed.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3167
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hangul Letter Nieun-Sios
Unicode 1.0 Name	Hangul Letter Nieun Sios
Block	Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"ᇇ" U+11C7 Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ㅧ
HTML Hex Encoding	ㅧ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x85 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3167
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003167
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3167

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	"ᇇ" U+11C7 Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Sios
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᇇ" U+11C7 Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Sios
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