U+1168 "ᅨ" Hangul Jungseong Ye Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1168 "ᅨ" Hangul Jungseong Ye is a medieval Korean vowel letter used exclusively in the Old Hangul writing system known as Eonhae, which was employed during the Joseon dynasty for glossing classical Chinese texts with Korean phonetic annotations. This character represents a specific medial vowel sound, one of the several complex yin-vowel forms derived from the basic hangul vowel system, and it is part of the Hangul Jamo block in Unicode, which encodes the individual consonant and vowel components of the Korean alphabet separately from their modern composite syllable forms. While no longer used in contemporary Korean orthography, U+1168 is preserved digitally for historical linguistic study and accurate representation of pre-modern Korean manuscripts, where it appears as an independent grapheme within older syllable blocks.

General Properties

Code Point U+1168
Version Added 1.1
Name Hangul Jungseong Ye
Block Hangul Jamo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᅨ
HTML Hex Encoding ᅨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x85 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1168
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001168
C/C++/Java Escape \u1168

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 YE
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