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U+3160 · HANGUL LETTER YU

Hangul Letter Yu

  • CodepointU+3160
  • NameHANGUL LETTER YU
  • Decimal12640
  • 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+3160 (ㅠ) is HANGUL LETTER YU, 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+1172 ᅲ (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+1172 ᅲ. 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 ㅠ

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E3 85 A03 bytes
UTF-1631601 code unit
UTF-32000031604 bytes
HTML decimal&#12640;
HTML hex&#x3160;
CSS\3160in content: "…"
JavaScript\u3160
JSON\u3160
Python\u3160
Python\N{HANGUL LETTER YU}by name
Java / C#\u3160
C / C++\u3160universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{3160}
Go\u3160
Ruby\u3160
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12640)
URL-encoded%E3%85%A0percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+1172 ᅲ
NFKDU+1172 ᅲ
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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+1172ᅲHangul Jungseong Yu
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Characters built on ㅠ

U+FFD7ￗHalfwidth Hangul Letter Yu
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Nearby in Hangul Compatibility Jamo

All in block →
U+315AㅚHangul Letter Oe U+315BㅛHangul Letter Yo U+315CㅜHangul Letter U U+315DㅝHangul Letter Weo U+315EㅞHangul Letter We U+315FㅟHangul Letter Wi U+3161ㅡHangul Letter Eu U+3162ㅢHangul Letter Yi U+3163ㅣHangul Letter I U+3164U+3164Hangul Filler U+3165ㅥHangul Letter Ssangnieun U+3166ㅦHangul Letter Nieun-Tikeut