U+318E "ㆎ" Hangul Letter Araeae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㆎ
U+318E "ㆎ" Hangul Letter Araeae is a rarely used vowel symbol from the Korean writing system Hangeul, representing a distinct historical vowel sound that no longer exists in modern standard Korean. This character was used during the Middle Korean period and is often associated with phonetics that have since merged into other vowels, such as "ㅏ" (a) or "ㅡ" (eu). In modern contexts, it is employed primarily for linguistic reconstruction, historical documentation, or in the study of Korean dialects where the sound may still be preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+318E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Araeae |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Alae Ae |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᆡ" U+11A1 Hangul Jungseong Araea-I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㆎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㆎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x86 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x318E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000318E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u318e |
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 | "ᆡ" U+11A1 Hangul Jungseong Araea-I |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᆡ" U+11A1 Hangul Jungseong Araea-I |
| 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 |