U+3170 "ㅰ" Hangul Letter Mieum-Pansios Unicode Character

U+3170 "ㅰ" Hangul Letter Mieum-Pansios is a compatibility jamo used in older or specialized Korean text processing to represent a digraph composed of the consonant "mieum" (ㅁ) and the obsolete consonant "pansios" (ㆄ), which indicated a bilabial fricative sound similar to an English "f". This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which was designed to map legacy encodings into Unicode, and it does not represent a modern or standard Korean syllable component in contemporary writing. As a compatibility character, its use is typically limited to historical documents, linguistic studies, or systems that require preservation of pre-Unicode character sets.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3170
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hangul Letter Mieum-Pansios
Unicode 1.0 Name	Hangul Letter Bieub 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	"ᇟ" U+11DF Hangul Jongseong Mieum-Pansios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ㅰ
HTML Hex Encoding	ㅰ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x85 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3170
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003170
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3170

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	"ᇟ" U+11DF Hangul Jongseong Mieum-Pansios
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᇟ" U+11DF Hangul Jongseong Mieum-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