U+3172 "ㅲ" Hangul Letter Pieup-Kiyeok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅲ
U+3172 "ㅲ" Hangul Letter Pieup-Kiyeok is a composite jamo representing the Korean consonant cluster "ㅂ" (bieup) followed by "ㄱ" (giyeok), used specifically in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block. This character encodes an obsolete or rare initial consonant cluster found in historical or dialectal Korean orthography, where two consonants are pronounced together at the start of a syllable, resulting in a sound that blends a bilabial stop with a velar stop. In modern standard Korean, such clusters are no longer used in initial position, but "ㅲ" remains a valid character for linguistic documentation and preserving archaic or technical transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3172 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Pieup-Kiyeok |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Bieub Giyeog |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄞ" U+111E Hangul Choseong Pieup-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3172 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003172 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3172 |
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 | "ᄞ" U+111E Hangul Choseong Pieup-Kiyeok |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄞ" U+111E Hangul Choseong Pieup-Kiyeok |
| 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 |