U+317D "ㅽ" Hangul Letter Sios-Pieup Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+317D "ㅽ" Hangul Letter Sios-Pieup is a specialized glyph used in the written representation of the Korean language, specifically within the Hangul syllable block system. It represents a composite of two consonant letters, Sios (ㅅ) and Pieup (ㅂ), indicating a sound that blends an initial "s" with a "p" or "b" sound, though it is not a standard modern Korean character and is instead classified as an archaic or obsolete jamo. This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode, which includes letters historically used in Middle Korean or in certain linguistic contexts, and it is not commonly found in contemporary text. Its encoding ensures that historical documents and specialized linguistic studies can accurately preserve and reproduce the specific phonetic constructions of earlier stages of the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+317D
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Letter Sios-Pieup
Unicode 1.0 Name Hangul Letter Sios Bieub
Block Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "ᄲ" U+1132 Hangul Choseong Sios-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ㅽ
HTML Hex Encoding ㅽ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE3 0x85 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x317D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000317D
C/C++/Java Escape \u317d

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 "ᄲ" U+1132 Hangul Choseong Sios-Pieup
NFKC Simple Casefold "ᄲ" U+1132 Hangul Choseong Sios-Pieup
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