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Glyph for U+3159
Source: Noto CJK

U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae

U+3159 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+3130 to U+318F Hangul Compatibility Jamo in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hangul script.

The glyph is a compatibility version of the glyph Glyph for U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+3159 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

ㅙ is one of the Korean hangul. This compound vowel is ㅗ + ㅐ. To pronounce this vowel, shape your mouth to make the ㅗ sound. Then start to say the ㅗ sound and while quickly saying the ㅐ sound. The resulting sound is ㅙ (wae) as in ‘wedding’.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 12633
UTF-8 E3 85 99
UTF-16 31 59
UTF-32 00 00 31 59
URL-Quoted %E3%85%99
HTML hex reference ㅙ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ã…™
Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) A4 C9
Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) A4 C9
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 39 AD 33
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) 1B 24 28 43 24 49 1B 28 42
Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) 1B 24 29 43 0E 24 49 0F
Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) 85 E1
Adobe Glyph List waekorean

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) HANGUL LETTER WAE
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Combining Half Marks
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Hangul
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) compatibility
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+3159 Hangul Letter Wae
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U