U+AE03 "긃" Hangul Syllable Geulb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AE03 "긃" Hangul Syllable Geulb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound value of "geulb," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" (lb). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains thousands of precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing and display for Korean. While not a particularly common syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and modular structure of Hangul, where individual jamo characters are combined into syllabic blocks that define the orthography.

General Properties

Code Point U+AE03
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Geulb
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
"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 긃
HTML Hex Encoding 긃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB8 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAE03
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AE03
C/C++/Java Escape \uae03

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter