U+316D "ㅭ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Yeorinhieuh Unicode Character

U+316D "ㅭ" Hangul Letter Rieul-Yeorinhieuh is a complex and rarely used jamo from the Korean Hangul writing system, representing a composite consonant sound that combines a "rieul" (ㄹ) with a "yeorinhieuh" (ㅎ) element, producing a sound similar to a tense or aspirated lateral fricative. This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode, where it serves as a typographic representation of a historical or dialectal consonant cluster that is not commonly used in modern standard Korean. In contemporary usage, "ㅭ" appears primarily in linguistic studies or older texts, as its sound has largely merged into simpler consonant patterns in the spoken language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+316D
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hangul Letter Rieul-Yeorinhieuh
Unicode 1.0 Name	Hangul Letter Lieul Yeolin Hieuh
Block	Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"ᇙ" U+11D9 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Yeorinhieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ㅭ
HTML Hex Encoding	ㅭ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x85 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding	0x316D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000316D
C/C++/Java Escape	\u316d

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	"ᇙ" U+11D9 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Yeorinhieuh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᇙ" U+11D9 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Yeorinhieuh
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