U+3174 "ㅴ" Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios-Kiyeok Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+3174 "ㅴ" Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios-Kiyeok is a precomposed Hangul jamo letter used in the Korean writing system, representing a complex cluster of three consonant sounds: pieup (ㅂ), sios (ㅅ), and kiyeok (ㄱ). It belongs to the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block within Unicode, which was designed to support legacy Korean character encoding systems by providing stand-alone forms for combinations of jamo that are no longer used in modern standard Korean. This specific cluster was historically employed in early Hangul or in certain phonetic transcriptions, where it would denote a compound onset sound that combined the bilabial stop of pieup, the sibilant of sios, and the velar stop of kiyeok. Today, it is rarely used in contemporary Korean, but it remains an important part of the Unicode standard for preserving historical and technical representation of the Korean script.

General Properties

Code Point U+3174
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Letter Pieup-Sios-Kiyeok
Unicode 1.0 Name Hangul Letter Bieub Sios Giyeog
Block Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "ᄢ" U+1122 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㅴ
HTML Hex Encoding ㅴ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x85 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x3174
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00003174
C/C++/Java Escape \u3174

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 "ᄢ" U+1122 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios-Kiyeok
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᄢ" U+1122 Hangul Choseong Pieup-Sios-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