U+AE0C "긌" Hangul Syllable Geuss Unicode Character
U+AE0C "긌" Hangul Syllable Geuss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant cluster "ㅆ" (ss). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to allow efficient digital text representation of Korean, where syllables are formed by grouping individual jamo characters into a single codepoint. This specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as its pronunciation and usage are largely theoretical or found in specialized linguistic contexts, but it demonstrates the systematic and logical structure of the Hangul script in encoding all possible sound combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE0C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geuss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae0c |