U+3151 "ㅑ" Hangul Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅑ
U+3151 "ㅑ" Hangul Letter Ya is a vowel character used in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "ya" as a palatalized version of the vowel ㅏ (a). It is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode, which includes precomposed jamo forms intended for compatibility with older Korean text standards. In modern Hangul, ㅑ typically combines with initial consonants to form syllabic blocks, as seen in words like 야구 (yagu, meaning baseball), and is essential for accurately writing and pronouncing Korean words that feature the "ya" sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3151 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Ya |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3151 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003151 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3151 |
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 | "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
| 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 |