U+315E "ㅞ" Hangul Letter We Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅞ
U+315E "ㅞ" Hangul Letter We is a precomposed Hangul syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the diphthong vowel sound "we," which is a combination of the base vowels "u" and "e." This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode, which includes legacy compatibility forms used in older Korean text encoding standards. In modern Korean, this sound is more commonly represented by the combination of separate jamo characters (ㅜ and ㅔ) rather than this precomposed form, but U+315E remains important for supporting historical documents and certain typographic contexts where compatibility with earlier systems is necessary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+315E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter We |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x315E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000315E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u315e |
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 | "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
| 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 |