Ae (hangul)

Ae (letter: ㅐ; name: 애; Korean pronunciation: [ɛ]) is a vowel in Korean hangul.

Ae
Korean name
Hangul	애
RR	ae
MR	ae

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

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.