U+AE04 "긄" Hangul Syllable Geuls Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AE04 "긄" Hangul Syllable Geuls is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ᄀ" (g), the medial vowel "ᅳ" (eu), and the final consonant "ᆰ" (lg) to represent the sound "geuls." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded for use in digital text to accurately represent the specific phonetic syllable that occurs in Korean vocabulary, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday usage and typically appears in specialized or historical contexts. The syllable exemplifies the systematic structure of Hangul, where individual letters are stacked into syllabic blocks to convey both sound and meaning within the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+AE04
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Geuls
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 긄
HTML Hex Encoding 긄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB8 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAE04
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AE04
C/C++/Java Escape \uae04

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