U+11A0 "ᆠ" Hangul Jungseong Araea-U Unicode Character

U+11A0 "ᆠ" Hangul Jungseong Araea-U is a historic vowel symbol from the Korean Hangul script, representing a rare and largely obsolete medial vowel used in the orthography of early Middle Korean. This character combines the shape of the "arae a" (a simple horizontal line) with a following "u" (vertical stroke), indicating a diphthong or vowel sequence once pronounced in certain lexical contexts before the Korean vowel system simplified. It was used in Classical Korean texts and is now classified as an archaic or extinct character, preserved in the Unicode standard for historical and scholarly purposes, allowing linguists and researchers to accurately represent pre-modern written Korean.