U+119E "ᆞ" Hangul Jungseong Araea Unicode Character

U+119E "ᆞ" Hangul Jungseong Araea is a vowel letter used in the writing system of Middle Korean, representing the sound commonly transcribed as [ʌ] or a mid central vowel. It was historically employed to form syllables in early Hangul texts before being largely phased out in modern Korean, although it persists in certain linguistic studies and in the representation of the Jeju dialect. As a rare and archaic jamo, it occupies a distinctive place in the Hangul syllabary, often compared to the letter "arae a" to differentiate it from the standard "a" vowel.