U+3173 "ㅳ" Hangul Letter Pieup-Tikeut Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅳ
U+3173 "ㅳ" Hangul Letter Pieup-Tikeut is an obsolete or archaic composite letter from the Hangul script, representing a double consonant cluster that combines the sounds of a bilabial plosive (ㅂ, pieup) and an alveolar plosive (ㄷ, tikeut). This character was historically used in early forms of Korean writing to denote a syllable-initial consonant sequence that has since been simplified or merged with other consonants in standard modern Hangul. It is classified under the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block and is primarily of interest for historical linguistics, philological studies, and digital representation of premodern Korean texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3173 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Pieup-Tikeut |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Bieub Digeud |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄠ" U+1120 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3173 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003173 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3173 |
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 | "ᄠ" U+1120 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Tikeut |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄠ" U+1120 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Tikeut |
| 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 |