Ieung

Ieung (letter: ㅇ; name: ), sometimes also called noieung to clearly distinguish from yesieung, 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 sound on some occasions. It takes on the sound when it is the ending consonant in a syllable. == History == Ieung, along with the rest of Hangul, was officially introduced in the 1446 Hunminjeongeum and Hunminjeongeum Haerye. Its design, originally a perfect circle, directly corresponds to the shape of t