U+3186 "ㆆ" Hangul Letter Yeorinhieuh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆆ
U+3186 "ㆆ" Hangul Letter Yeorinhieuh is a unique component of the Korean Hangul writing system, representing a glottal stop or weakened /h/ sound that historically appeared in certain morphological contexts, particularly in early or specialized orthographies. It belongs to the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block and is utilized in traditional phonetic transcription or in the precise representation of Korean dialects, where it functions as a distinct consonant letter. Despite its rare use in modern standard Korean, it remains an important symbol for linguistic study and historical documentation of the language's sound system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3186 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Yeorinhieuh |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Yeolin Hieuh |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅙ" U+1159 Hangul Choseong Yeorinhieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3186 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003186 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3186 |
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 | "ᅙ" U+1159 Hangul Choseong Yeorinhieuh |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅙ" U+1159 Hangul Choseong Yeorinhieuh |
| 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 |