U+3168 "ㅨ" Hangul Letter Nieun-Pansios Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅨ
U+3168 "ㅨ" Hangul Letter Nieun-Pansios is a rare and largely obsolete hangul jamo, representing a consonant sound that was used in earlier stages of the Korean writing system, specifically in the now-uncommon "pansios" series of letters. Unlike the standard modern hangul consonant "nieun," which is commonly used in contemporary Korean, the pansios variant denotes a different articulation that has since fallen out of use. This character is primarily of interest to historical linguists and scholars studying the evolution of the Korean alphabet, as it appears in older texts and philological materials rather than in modern everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3168 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Nieun-Pansios |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Nieun Ban Chi Eum |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᇈ" U+11C8 Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Pansios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3168 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003168 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3168 |
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 | "ᇈ" U+11C8 Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Pansios |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᇈ" U+11C8 Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Pansios |
| 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 |