U+316C "ㅬ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Pansios Unicode Character

U+316C "ㅬ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Pansios is a rarely used jamo, or alphabetic component, of the Korean Hangul writing system. It represents a digraph combining the consonant sounds of "rieul" (ㄹ, an alveolar flap or lateral approximant) and "pansios" (ㅿ, an obsolete fricative, historically pronounced like a soft "z" or voiced "s"), originally used in Middle Korean phonology. While no longer a part of standard modern Korean, this character appears in historical texts and linguistic studies, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard's Hangul Compatibility Jamo block to support accurate digital representation of archaic orthography and scholarly transcriptions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+316C
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hangul Letter Rieul-Pansios
Unicode 1.0 Name	Hangul Letter Lieul 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	"ᇗ" U+11D7 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pansios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ㅬ
HTML Hex Encoding	ㅬ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x85 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x316C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000316C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u316c

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	"ᇗ" U+11D7 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pansios
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᇗ" U+11D7 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-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