U+3187 "ㆇ" Hangul Letter Yo-Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆇ
U+3187 "ㆇ" Hangul Letter Yo-Ya is a relatively rare and composite vowel symbol from the Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents a phonetic blend of the sounds yo and ya, functioning as a diphthong that is no longer in modern standard Korean use but appears in historical texts and older or dialectal transcriptions. This character falls within the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which encodes precomposed syllabic components for compatibility with earlier Korean computer standards, and its shape combines elements of the jamo for yo and ya into a single, stylized glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3187 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Yo-Ya |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Yoya |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᆄ" U+1184 Hangul Jungseong Yo-Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3187 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003187 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3187 |
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 | "ᆄ" U+1184 Hangul Jungseong Yo-Ya |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᆄ" U+1184 Hangul Jungseong Yo-Ya |
| 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 |