Ieung

Not to be confused with o or 0.
ieung
Hangul
Korean name
Revised Romanizationieung
McCune–Reischaueriŭng

Ieung (sign: ㅇ; Korean: 이응) is a consonant letter of the Korean alphabet, Hangul. It is silent when used at the beginning of a syllable (it is a consonant placeholder in vowel letters). However, ㅇ might take on the glottal stop [ʔ] sound on some occasions.[1] It takes on the [ŋ] sound when it is the ending consonant in a syllable.[2][3][4]

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ㅇ
Stroke order in writing ㅇ

Computing codes

Character information
Preview ㅇ ᄋ ᆼ ㈇ ㉧
Unicode name HANGUL LETTER IEUNG HANGUL CHOSEONG IEUNG HANGUL JONGSEONG IEUNG PARENTHESIZED HANGUL IEUNG CIRCLED HANGUL IEUNG
Encodings decimal hex dec hex dec hex dec hex dec hex
Unicode 12615 U+3147 4363 U+110B 4540 U+11BC 12807 U+3207 12903 U+3267
UTF-8 227 133 135 E3 85 87 225 132 139 E1 84 8B 225 134 188 E1 86 BC 227 136 135 E3 88 87 227 137 167 E3 89 A7
Numeric character reference ㅇ ㅇ ᄋ ᄋ ᆼ ᆼ ㈇ ㈇ ㉧ ㉧

References

  1. ^ "성문 파열음[?]에 대해 알아보자.glottal stop". m1.386dx.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2022-03-09.
  2. ^ "Korean". Omniglot. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  3. ^ "Script and pronunciation". University College London. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  4. ^ Jiyoung Shin, Jieun Kiaer, Jaeeun Cha (2012). The Sounds of Korean. Cambridge University Press. pp. XiX–XX. ISBN 9781139789882.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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