U+3169 "ㅩ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Kiyeok-Sios Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅩ
U+3169 "ㅩ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Kiyeok-Sios is a precomposed Hangul jamo that represents a complex consonant cluster used primarily in archaic or obsolete Korean orthography. This character combines the shapes and sounds of the individual jamo ㄹ (rieul), ㄱ (kiyeok), and ㅅ (sios), typically appearing as a final consonant (batchim) in older or dialectal Korean texts. Its inclusion in Unicode preserves historical linguistic data and allows for accurate representation of older written Korean forms that are not commonly used in modern standard writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3169 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Rieul-Kiyeok-Sios |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Lieul Giyeog Sios |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᇌ" U+11CC Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3169 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003169 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3169 |
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 | "ᇌ" U+11CC Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok-Sios |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᇌ" U+11CC Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok-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 |