U+317C "ㅼ" Hangul Letter Sios-Tikeut Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+317C "ㅼ" Hangul Letter Sios-Tikeut is a precomposed Hangul jamo that represents a digraph combining the consonants Sios (ㅅ) and Tikeut (ㄷ), reflecting a historical or specific phonetic cluster used in the Korean writing system. It is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode, which was designed to support compatibility with earlier encoding standards for the Korean alphabet. This character was primarily used in older forms of Korean orthography or in linguistic notation to denote a double or compound initial consonant, though in modern standard Korean such clusters are typically written as separate jamo. The inclusion of this letter in Unicode ensures the accurate digital representation of historical and specialized Korean texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+317C
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Letter Sios-Tikeut
Unicode 1.0 Name Hangul Letter Sios Digeud
Block Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "ᄯ" U+112F Hangul Choseong Sios-Tikeut

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㅼ
HTML Hex Encoding ㅼ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x85 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x317C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000317C
C/C++/Java Escape \u317c

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 "ᄯ" U+112F Hangul Choseong Sios-Tikeut
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᄯ" U+112F Hangul Choseong Sios-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