ㅐ(''ae'', ) is a vowel in Korean

hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The le ...

. The Unicode for ㅐ is U+3150. It also shares its pronunciation with ㅔ.

History

The letter was originally the combination of 'ㅏ' and 'l' as verified from the description of the "An Explanation of the Medials(中聲解)" chapter of the

Hunminjeongeum Haerye ''Hunminjeongeum Haerye'' (Hanja: 訓民正音解例; literally: "Explanations and Examples of the Correct/Proper Sounds for the Instruction of the People"), or simply ''Haerye'', is a commentary on the ''Hunminjeongeum'', the original promulgati ...

. 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 'l'. From the 18th and 19th century, the change of pronunciations of the word is attested by confused notations with ㅔ.

Stroke order

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References

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