What is the difference between Hangul Letter A and Hangul Jungseong A?

Hangul Letter A is U+314F in the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block. Hangul Jungseong A is U+1161 in the Hangul Jamo block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Hangul Letter A?

The HTML entity for Hangul Letter A (U+314F) is ㅏ.

What is the HTML entity for Hangul Jungseong A?

The HTML entity for Hangul Jungseong A (U+1161) is ᅡ.

Are Hangul Letter A and Hangul Jungseong A the same Unicode character?

No. Hangul Letter A is U+314F (decimal 12623) and Hangul Jungseong A is U+1161 (decimal 4449). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Hangul Letter A and Hangul Jungseong A?

Hangul Letter A (U+314F) encodes as E3 85 8F in UTF-8. Hangul Jungseong A (U+1161) encodes as E1 85 A1 in UTF-8.

Hangul Letter A vs Hangul Jungseong A

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

ㅏ

Hangul Letter A

U+314F

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ᅡ

Hangul Jungseong A

U+1161

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Property Comparison

Property	Hangul Letter A	Hangul Jungseong A
Codepoint	`U+314F`	`U+1161`
Decimal	`12623`	`4449`
HTML Entity	`ㅏ`	`ᅡ`
HTML Decimal	`ㅏ`	`ᅡ`
HTML Hex	`ㅏ`	`ᅡ`
UTF-8	`E3 85 8F`	`E1 85 A1`
UTF-16	`31 4F`	`11 61`
UTF-32	`0000314F`	`00001161`
CSS Escape	`\314F`	`\1161`
JS Escape	`\u314F`	`\u1161`
Python Escape	`\u314F`	`\u1161`
URL Encoded	`%E3%85%8F`	`%E1%85%A1`
Category	`Other Letter (Lo)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Hangul Compatibility Jamo`	`Hangul Jamo`
Script	`Hangul`	`Hangul`
Bidi Class	`L`	`L`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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