U+314F "ㅏ" Hangul Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅏ
U+314F "ㅏ" Hangul Letter A is a fundamental vowel component in the Korean writing system known as Hangeul, representing the sound /a/ as in the English word "father". This character is classified within the Unicode standard as a "Hangul Letter" and is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, which was designed to support older Korean text encoding systems. In modern Hangeul, "ㅏ" functions as a building block for syllables, often combining with initial consonants to form characters like "가" (ga) or "나" (na), and its vertical stroke symbolizes the sky in the traditional philosophical principles of Hangeul creation, where vowels are shaped to represent the harmony of heaven, earth, and humanity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+314F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter A |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x314F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000314F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u314f |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
| Script | Hangul |
| Script Extensions | Hangul |
| 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 | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |