U+3182 "ㆂ" Hangul Letter Yesieung-Sios Unicode Character

U+3182 "ㆂ" Hangul Letter Yesieung-Sios is a historic and obsolete consonant letter from the Korean Hangul writing system, specifically representing a digraph formed by combining the sounds of "yesieung" (a paleographic initial ㅇ) and "sios" (ㅅ). Used primarily in early forms of Hangul during the Joseon dynasty, it was designed to express a specific phonetic value in Middle Korean that is no longer present in the modern language. While it does not appear in contemporary Korean orthography, this character remains encoded in Unicode as part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, serving as an important resource for historical and linguistic study of the Korean script's evolution.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3182
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hangul Letter Yesieung-Sios
Unicode 1.0 Name	Hangul Letter Ngieung Sios
Block	Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"ᇱ" U+11F1 Hangul Jongseong Yesieung-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ㆂ
HTML Hex Encoding	ㆂ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x86 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3182
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003182
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3182

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	"ᇱ" U+11F1 Hangul Jongseong Yesieung-Sios
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᇱ" U+11F1 Hangul Jongseong Yesieung-Sios
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