U+3159 "ㅙ" Hangul Letter Wae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅙ
U+3159 "ㅙ" Hangul Letter Wae is a precomposed syllable block representing the Korean vowel sound "wae," which is a diphthong combining the semivowel "w" with the vowel "ae." It belongs to the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block, designed for compatibility with older Korean character encoding systems, and is used in the modern Korean alphabet, Hangul, where it appears as a distinct jamo in syllabic writing. This character corresponds to the Hangul Syllable block code point U+C640 "외" for the syllable "oe," but as a compatibility jamo, it represents the medial vowel component independent of an initial consonant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3159 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Wae |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅫ" U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3159 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003159 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3159 |
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 | "ᅫ" U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅫ" U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae |
| 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 |