U+3183 "ㆃ" Hangul Letter Yesieung-Pansios Unicode Character

U+3183 "ㆃ" Hangul Letter Yesieung-Pansios is a specialized glyph from the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, representing an archaic or obsolete Korean consonant sound used in historical orthography. The name "Yesieung-Pansios" refers to a variant of the ancient Korean letter "ㅿ" (half-ieung or pansios), which was employed in early Hangul texts, particularly during the Joseon dynasty, to denote a voiced or fricative sound that no longer exists in modern Korean phonology. This character is primarily of interest to linguists, historians, and typographers studying the evolution of the Korean writing system, as it appears in old manuscripts and certain academic transcriptions but is rarely used in contemporary contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+3183
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hangul Letter Yesieung-Pansios
Unicode 1.0 Name	Hangul Letter Ngieung Ban Chi Eum
Block	Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"ᇲ" U+11F2 Hangul Jongseong Yesieung-Pansios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ㆃ
HTML Hex Encoding	ㆃ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x86 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3183
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003183
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3183

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	"ᇲ" U+11F2 Hangul Jongseong Yesieung-Pansios
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᇲ" U+11F2 Hangul Jongseong Yesieung-Pansios
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