ieung
Hangul
Korean name
Revised Romanizationieung
McCune–Reischaueriŭng

Ieung (sign: ; Korean: 이응) is a consonant letter of the Korean alphabet, Hangul. The Unicode for ㅇ is U+3147. 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] And 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

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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