Bansiot (letter: ; name: ), sometimes called samgakhyeong (), is an archaic consonant letter of the Korean alphabet, Hangul. In Unicode, its name is spelled pansios, following the ISO/TR 11941 romanization system. Its sound value is disputed, but most scholars believe it to have been the voiced alveolar fricative in Middle Korean. It fell out of use around the late 16th century, as its corresponding phoneme disappeared from the language.
Bansiot (letter: ; name: ), sometimes called samgakhyeong (), is an archaic consonant letter of the Korean alphabet, Hangul. In Unicode, its name is spelled pansios, following the ISO/TR 11941 romanization system. Its sound value is disputed, but most scholars believe it to have been the voiced alveolar fricative in Middle Korean. It fell out of use around the late 16th century, as its corresponding phoneme disappeared from the language.
== Description == was a voiced equivalent of . Its use was generally restricted to the word medial position (i.e. not the initial or final consonant of a word), although it was sometimes used as the first initial consonant of a word. It was used in the initial position to represent some Late Middle Chinese sounds, like (; ) or (; ); when used for such cases, its Sino-Korean pronunciation was possibly . Early Hangul texts sometimes used it similarly to the saisiot; for example, (; ) appears in ''Yongbiŏch'ŏn'ga''. This type of usage eventually disappeared.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).