ㆆ

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ㆆ	U+3186, ㆆ HANGUL LETTER YEORINHIEUH

Hangul Compatibility Jamo

ᅙ	U+1159, ᅙ HANGUL CHOSEONG YEORINHIEUH

ᇹ	U+11F9, ᇹ HANGUL JONGSEONG YEORINHIEUH

Korean

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /◌͈/

Letter

ㆆ

(linguistics) In contemporary Korean dialectology, used to represent an archiphoneme which tenses the subsequent consonant.
(obsolete) Used for the same purpose in New Korean Orthography, a brief-lived (1948—1954) spelling reform in North Korea.

Middle Korean

Etymology

From ㅇ (null consonant), with an additional stroke.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔ/ (in Chinese transcription)
IPA^(key): /◌͈/ (in native Korean)

Letter

ㆆ (q)

Transcribes in Chinese. This was not a sound in Middle Korean.
Used to represent an archiphoneme which tenses the subsequent consonant.

Usage notes

Called 여린히읗 (yeorinhieut) in Modern Korean.

See also

ㆁ (ng)
ㅇ

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