U+3185 "ㆅ" Hangul Letter Ssanghieuh Unicode Character

U+3185 "ㆅ" Hangul Letter Ssanghieuh is a unique glyph used in the Korean Hangul writing system to represent a doubled or aspirated version of the consonant "hieuh," essentially denoting a strong or tense "h" sound when employed in phonetic transcription or older orthographic conventions. This letter is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which includes characters that were historically used in early forms of Hangul or for precise phonological notation, but it is not used in modern standard Korean. Instead, it appears in linguistic studies or historical texts, where it serves as a digraph or modifier to indicate a more forceful articulation, distinguishing it from the basic "hieuh" character "ㅎ".

General Properties

Code Point	U+3185
Version Added	1.1
Name	Hangul Letter Ssanghieuh
Unicode 1.0 Name	Hangul Letter Ssang Hieuh
Block	Hangul Compatibility Jamo
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Compat
Decomposition Mapping	"ᅘ" U+1158 Hangul Choseong Ssanghieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ㆅ
HTML Hex Encoding	ㆅ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE3 0x86 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x3185
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00003185
C/C++/Java Escape	\u3185

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	"ᅘ" U+1158 Hangul Choseong Ssanghieuh
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ᅘ" U+1158 Hangul Choseong Ssanghieuh
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