Old Hangul medial vowel

ᅺ is an archaic Hangul vowel letter used in historical Korean spelling. It represents a medial vowel—the vowel part of a Hangul syllable—and Korean Unicode data maps the sequence ᅥ + ᅩ to this one cluster character.

Hangul was created in the 15th century to make Korean easier to write; later Korean writing formed additional letters by combining the original set. This character preserves a historical vowel sequence used inside an old Hangul syllable.

How does ᅺ work in text?

Use it as the vowel part of an old Hangul syllable. An old-Hangul input method (IME, a keyboard that composes text) can generate archaic jamo—individual Hangul letter parts—in sequence; a standard modern Korean keyboard may not produce this cluster through ordinary syllable typing. For a one-off insertion, use a character map or a text source.

A font without archaic Hangul coverage may show ᅺ detached or as a box. With font and app support, Hangul shaping arranges conjoining jamo into a syllable block. A missing or detached display is a rendering issue, not a different character.