U+3181 "ㆁ" Hangul Letter Yesieung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆁ
U+3181 "ㆁ" Hangul Letter Yesieung is a historical Hangul consonant that represents the sound /ŋ/ (like the "ng" in "sing") and is distinct from the modern Hangul letter "ㅇ", which can be silent or represent the same sound depending on its position in a syllable. Once used in Early Modern Korean and still appearing in certain linguistic contexts or older texts, this letter is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block and serves scholars studying historical Korean orthography or phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3181 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Yesieung |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Ngieung |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅌ" U+114C Hangul Choseong Yesieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3181 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003181 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3181 |
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 | "ᅌ" U+114C Hangul Choseong Yesieung |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅌ" U+114C Hangul Choseong Yesieung |
| 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 |