U+317A "ㅺ" Hangul Letter Sios-Kiyeok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅺ
U+317A "ㅺ" Hangul Letter Sios-Kiyeok is an archaic or obsolete consonant cluster used in the Korean writing system, representing a composite of the Sios (ㅅ) and Kiyeok (ㄱ) sounds. This character belongs to the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which was designed to maintain compatibility with pre-existing Korean character sets, and it is not used in modern standard Korean orthography. Instead, it appears in historical texts or linguistic studies of Middle Korean, where such digraphs were employed to represent specific phonetic combinations that have since merged or evolved in contemporary speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+317A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Sios-Kiyeok |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter 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 | "ᄭ" U+112D Hangul Choseong Sios-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅺ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅺ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x317A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000317A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u317a |
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 | "ᄭ" U+112D Hangul Choseong Sios-Kiyeok |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄭ" U+112D Hangul Choseong 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 |