반치음

Noun

 * 1) the obsolete Korean consonant.

Usage notes
The Hunmin Jeongeum defines the sound written by as a "semi-incisor sound" found as the initial consonant of the Sino-Korean reading of the Chinese character. It is conventionally reconstructed as, both because it behaves as a voiced counterpart to in Middle Korean morphophonology and because this is the form indicated by dialectal reconstruction. Most instances of have been deleted in modern Korean.

In Middle Sino-Korean, corresponds to Middle Chinese  (the  initials). Due to the deletion of mentioned above, all Sino-Korean readings with  now have null initials. Sino-Korean readings originally with include:.