U+AE00 "글" Hangul Syllable Geul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
글
U+AE00 "글" Hangul Syllable Geul is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, representing the sound "geul" as an initial consonant "ㄱ" (g) and a medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu) combined with a final consonant "ㄹ" (l). Used extensively in the Korean language, it forms the core of words such as "글자" meaning letter or character, and "글쓰기" meaning writing, reflecting its fundamental role in writing and linguistic expression within the Korean writing system. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE00 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geul |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "그" U+ADF8 Hangul Syllable Geu "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 글 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 글 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE00 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae00 |