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hangul letter yae

Hangul Letter Yae

ㅒ is the Korean vowel letter yae, used as a component inside Hangul syllable blocks. On the standard 2-set Dubeolsik keyboard layout, type it with Shift+O; with an initial consonant, Korean input can assemble it into a syllable. Its standalone compatibility form may be normalized to a different internal jamo representation.

Text symbol
Also called
yae
Search it as
얘 · jamo · vowel · Dubeolsik · Shift+O
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ㅒ means

It is the Korean vowel letter yae.

Hangul was designed to represent Korean speech with letters arranged into syllable blocks. Its creation dates to 1443, and the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum followed in 1446. The vowel ㅒ combines the forms ㅑ and ㅣ; in Late Middle Korean, it represented a morphophonemic triphthong, a vowel sound that could shift with a word’s form.

What does ㅒ mean when someone sends it?

By itself, it is a vowel letter, not a complete syllable.

A Korean initial consonant can join ㅒ to form a square syllable block, as in 얘. That completed syllable can mean “hey” or the shortened “this child”; those readings belong to 얘, not automatically to a message containing only ㅒ.

Why does ㅒ sometimes stay separate?

This is a compatibility jamo, not a syllable block.

Compatibility jamo are standalone forms kept for older Korean text encodings. Hangul syllables are normally built from conjoining jamo. Unicode normalization forms NFKC and NFKD can convert ㅒ to its conjoining vowel counterpart, changing the stored text representation.

Don't confuse it with

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ㅑ
Hangul Letter Ya
ㅑ is the vowel ya; ㅒ is yae, formed from ㅑ and ㅣ.
ㅖ
Hangul Letter Ye
For ㅒ vs ㅖ: ㅒ is yae, while ㅖ is ye. On the standard 2-set Dubeolsik layout, ㅒ uses Shift+O and ㅖ uses Shift+P.

Combination ideas

2
A complete Korean syllable; depending on context, “hey” or “this child.”
A Korean word meaning talk, conversation, or story; its first syllable contains ㅒ.

Questions people ask

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Is ㅒ a word?

No. It is a vowel letter. The complete syllable 얘 can mean “hey” or “this child,” depending on context.

Why does ㅒ look disconnected?

It is a standalone compatibility jamo. Unicode normalization forms NFKC or NFKD can convert it to the conjoining vowel used to build Hangul syllables.

How to type ㅒ

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 3152, then Alt+X to get ㅒ.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul letter yae”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 3152, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ㅒ
CSS
\3152
2-set Dubeolsik
Switch to Korean input. On the standard 2-set Dubeolsik layout, press Shift+O.
Build a syllable
Type an initial Korean consonant followed by ㅒ; the input method can assemble them into one Hangul syllable block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ㅒ
HTML hex
ㅒ
CSS content
content: "\3152";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%85%92
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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