What ㆎ means
It is the arae-a-and-ㅣ vowel used in Middle Korean. In the 15th-century Hangeul tradition, created in 1443 and explained in the 1446 Hunminjeongeum, Hangul vowels were built from simple forms including ㆍ and ㅣ. ㆎ represents one such combination, written to record Korean sounds in Hangul rather than with Chinese characters. As the sound of arae-a changed, ㆎ came to be associated with ㅐ, a different letter now read as a single vowel in standard Korean. ㆎ is the standalone compatibility form; ᆡ is its conjoining form for syllable assembly.
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Who writes ㆎ
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㆎ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ㆎ
- Also called
- arae-ae · araea-i · 아래애
- Search it as
- araeae · old Hangul vowel
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ㆎ\318ECodes and encoding1 code points
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