U+316F "ㅯ" Hangul Letter Mieum-Sios Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+316F "ㅯ" Hangul Letter Mieum-Sios is a precomposed syllable-final consonant cluster in the Hangul writing system, representing a combination of the letters mieum (ㅁ) and sios (ㅅ) used to denote the final consonant sound in Korean. This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which exists to support legacy encoding systems and older Korean text processing. In modern Korean, such complex final consonant clusters are typically represented by separate jamo characters rather than this precomposed form, making U+316F primarily relevant for compatibility with historical data or certain older fonts and software. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that texts written with these traditional cluster characters can be accurately preserved and displayed across different platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+316F
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Letter Mieum-Sios
Unicode 1.0 Name Hangul Letter Mieum Sios
Block Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "ᇝ" U+11DD Hangul Jongseong Mieum-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㅯ
HTML Hex Encoding ㅯ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x85 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x316F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000316F
C/C++/Java Escape \u316f

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 "ᇝ" U+11DD Hangul Jongseong Mieum-Sios
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᇝ" U+11DD Hangul Jongseong Mieum-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