U+1166 "ᅦ" Hangul Jungseong E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᅦ
U+1166 "ᅦ" Hangul Jungseong E is a vowel component of the Korean Hangul script, specifically classified as a medial vowel or jungseong representing the sound "e" as in the English word "bed." It is encoded in the Hangul Jamo block of the Unicode standard, which contains the individual letters that are combined to form full Hangul syllables. Historically, it derives from the Korean alphabet created in the 15th century under King Sejong the Great, where its shape is said to represent the flat earth and sky, reflecting the script's systematic and phonetic design.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1166 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Jungseong E |
| Block | Hangul Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᅦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᅦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x85 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1166 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001166 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1166 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Maybe |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Maybe |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Hangul V Jamo |
| Script | Hangul |
| Script Extensions | Hangul |
| Hangul Syllable Type | Vowel Jamo |
| Jamo Short Name | E |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Hangul Syllable Type=V |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |