Ae (hangul)

ae
Hangul
Korean name
Revised Romanizationae
McCune–Reischauerae

ㅐ(ae, IPA: [ɛ]) is a vowel in Korean hangul.

History

The letter was originally the combination of ⟨ㅏ⟩ and ⟨ㅣ⟩ as verified from the description of the chapter "An Explanation of the Medials (中聲解)" of the Hunminjeongeum Haerye.[a][1] In the 15th century, the letter was originally pronounced as the diphthong /aj/, however, it was not included with the 11 medial letters, along with ㅕ, ㅛ, ㅠ, which started with the letter ⟨ㅣ⟩.[1] From the 18th and 19th century, the change of pronunciations of the word is attested by confused notations with ㅔ.[1]

Stroke order

Stroke order in writing ㅐ
Stroke order in writing ㅐ

Computing codes

Character information
Preview ㅐ ᅢ
Unicode name HANGUL LETTER AE HANGUL JUNGSEONG AE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 12624 U+3150 4450 U+1162
UTF-8 227 133 144 E3 85 90 225 133 162 E1 85 A2
Numeric character reference ㅐ ㅐ ᅢ ᅢ

Notes

  1. ^ Ten combinations with the letter ⟨ㅣ⟩ as a medial letter exist (一字中聲之與ㅣ相合者十), which are ㆎ ㅢ ㅚ ㅐ ㅟ ㅔ ㆉ ㅒ ㆌ ㅖ.

References

  1. ^ a b c "ㅐ". Encyclopedia of Korean Culture.
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