Ieung

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. And it takes on the [ŋ] sound when it is the ending consonant in a syllable.

ieung
Hangul
Korean name
Revised Romanizationieung
McCune–Reischaueriŭng
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