U+3178 "ㅸ" Hangul Letter Kapyeounpieup Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+3178 "ㅸ" Hangul Letter Kapyeounpieup is a historical Jamo which was used in Early Modern Korean orthography to represent a now obsolete bilabial fricative sound, typically romanized as a "b" or "v" between vowels. It is a composite letter formed by adding a short vertical stroke to the bottom of the basic Hangul consonant ㅂ (pieup), and it appears in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block primarily for legacy and scholarly text encoding. This character is no longer used in standard modern Korean, but it remains essential for accurately representing Middle and Early Modern Korean documents, linguistic analysis, and digital preservation of historical texts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+3178
Name
Hangul Letter Kapyeounpieup
Unicode 1.0 Name
Hangul Letter Bieub Sun Gyeong Eum
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ㅸ
HTML Hex Encoding
ㅸ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE3 0x85 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x3178
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00003178
C/C++/Java Escape
\u3178
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Hangul