U+3150 "ㅐ" Hangul Letter Ae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅐ
U+3150 "ㅐ" Hangul Letter Ae is a modern vowel symbol in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "ae" as in the English word "cat." It is formed by combining the vowel strokes for "a" (ㅏ) and "i" (ㅣ), reflecting its historical origin as a digraph. In contemporary Korean, this character is used in combinations with initial consonants to form syllables, such as in the word "개" (gae, meaning "dog"). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, U+3150 is essential for standard text processing and digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3150 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Ae |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅢ" U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3150 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003150 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3150 |
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 | "ᅢ" U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅢ" U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae |
| 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 |