Ieung

Not to be confused with o or 0.

ieung
Hangul
Korean name
Revised Romanization	ieung
McCune–Reischauer	iŭng

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

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.