U+AE02 "긂" Hangul Syllable Geulm Unicode Character
U+AE02 "긂" Hangul Syllable Geulm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "geulm". This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (lm), which together create a single glyph in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block. As a precomposed syllable, it allows for efficient text processing and display, particularly in digital environments where the complex stacking of jamo (individual letters) would otherwise be required. While "긂" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is an extremely rare or even obsolete character in actual Korean usage, as it does not correspond to any commonly used word in the modern Korean lexicon.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE02 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geulm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae02 |