U+AE0B "긋" Hangul Syllable Geus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
긋
U+AE0B "긋" Hangul Syllable Geus is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "geus". It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (siot), which together create a syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range of code points that encodes all possible modern Korean syllable blocks, allowing for efficient text processing and display. In practical usage, "긋" appears in Korean vocabulary, such as in the verb "긋다" meaning "to draw a line" or "to scratch", and it follows the standard orthographic rules of Hangul, where syllables are written in a compact, square-shaped form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE0B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geus |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE0B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae0b |