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U+3131 · HANGUL LETTER KIYEOK

Hangul Letter Kiyeok

  • CodepointU+3131
  • NameHANGUL LETTER KIYEOK
  • Decimal12593
  • BlockHangul Compatibility Jamo (U+3130–U+318F)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptHangul
  • CategoryLo — Other Letter
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classL — Left-to-Right
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+3131 (ㄱ) is HANGUL LETTER KIYEOK, a letter in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block. It belongs to the Hangul script. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

It is a compatibility variant of U+1100 ᄀ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+1100 ᄀ. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ㄱ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E3 84 B13 bytes
UTF-1631311 code unit
UTF-32000031314 bytes
HTML decimal&#12593;
HTML hex&#x3131;
CSS\3131in content: "…"
JavaScript\u3131
JSON\u3131
Python\u3131
Python\N{HANGUL LETTER KIYEOK}by name
Java / C#\u3131
C / C++\u3131universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3131}
Go\u3131
Ruby\u3131
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12593)
URL-encoded%E3%84%B1percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+1100 ᄀ
NFKDU+1100 ᄀ
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+1100ᄀHangul Choseong Kiyeok U+11A8ᆨHangul Jongseong Kiyeok
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Characters built on ㄱ

U+FFA1ﾡHalfwidth Hangul Letter Kiyeok
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Nearby in Hangul Compatibility Jamo

All in block →
U+3132ㄲHangul Letter Ssangkiyeok U+3133ㄳHangul Letter Kiyeok-Sios U+3134ㄴHangul Letter Nieun U+3135ㄵHangul Letter Nieun-Cieuc U+3136ㄶHangul Letter Nieun-Hieuh U+3137ㄷHangul Letter Tikeut