U+3179 "ㅹ" Hangul Letter Kapyeounssangpieup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅹ
U+3179 "ㅹ" Hangul Letter Kapyeounssangpieup is a rarely used historical jamo that represents a double (ssang) and aspirated (kapyeoun) variant of the bieup consonant, specifically a fortis labial sound found in older forms of the Korean writing system. It is composed of two pieup (ㅂ) characters combined with the kapyeoun diacritic, indicating a stronger, tensed articulation. This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block and is primarily of interest to linguists and scholars studying Middle Korean phonology or archaic orthographic conventions, as it is no longer used in modern Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3179 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Kapyeounssangpieup |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Ssang Bieub Sun Gyeong Eum |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄬ" U+112C Hangul Choseong Kapyeounssangpieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3179 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003179 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3179 |
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 | "ᄬ" U+112C Hangul Choseong Kapyeounssangpieup |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄬ" U+112C Hangul Choseong Kapyeounssangpieup |
| 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 |