U+AE08 "금" Hangul Syllable Geum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
금
U+AE08 "금" Hangul Syllable Geum is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value /geum/. This character is formed from the initial consonant ㄱ (g) and the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), combined with the final consonant ㅁ (m), and it holds significant linguistic importance as it appears in numerous Korean words. Notably, "금" is the Korean word for "gold" (as in the metal), and it is also a common element in personal names, place names, and vocabulary relating to metals, money, or prohibitions (where it can mean "forbidden" depending on context). In Unicode, it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible precomposed Hangul syllables for efficient text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geum |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 금 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 금 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae08 |