| Yeorinhieut | |
|---|---|
| ㆆ | |
 | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Hangul |
| Type | Alphabet |
| Sound values | [ʔ] |
| In Unicode | U+3186, U+1159, U+11F9 |
| Other | |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 여린히읗 |
| RR | yeorinhieut |
| MR | yŏrinhiŭt |
| Historical name | |
| Hangul | 된이응 |
| RR | doenieung |
| MR | toeniŭng |
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Yeorinhieut (letter:ㆆ; name:여린히읗;lit. soft hieut) is an archaicconsonant letter of the Korean alphabet,Hangul. In Unicode, its name is spelledyeorinhieuh, following theISO/TR 11941 romanization system.[1] It was historically widely calleddoenieung (된이응;lit. hard ieung), but the South KoreanNational Institute of Korean Language decided in 1991 to officially name ityeorinhieut because it was felt that contemporary South Koreans would more visually associate the graph with hieut over ieung.[2] It was associated with aglottal stop[ʔ].[3][4]
It has a stroke added fromㅇ; theHunminjeongeum Haerye, the text that introduced Hangul, introduces the two characters as having similar sounds, and when transcribing Korean it says they can be used interchangeably. Various scholars argue thatㆆ was relatively artificial and mostly used as an initial consonants for Sino-Korean words in Chinese dictionaries that begin with a glottal stop and was otherwise not used much. For Korean, it could be used to indicatepreglottalization before a tensed consonant.[3][4] It largely fell out of use by the end of the 15th century, after which its role was replaced byㅅ.[5]
| Preview | ㆆ | ᅙ | ᇹ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | HANGUL LETTER YEORINHIEUH | HANGUL CHOSEONG YEORINHIEUH | HANGUL JONGSEONG YEORINHIEUH | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 12678 | U+3186 | 4441 | U+1159 | 4601 | U+11F9 |
| UTF-8 | 227 134 134 | E3 86 86 | 225 133 153 | E1 85 99 | 225 135 185 | E1 87 B9 |
| Numeric character reference | ㆆ | ㆆ | ᅙ | ᅙ | ᇹ | ᇹ |
The dictionary definition ofㆆ at Wiktionary