U+AE0D "긍" Hangul Syllable Geung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
긍
U+AE0D "긍" Hangul Syllable Geung is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "geung." It is formed from the initial consonant ㄱ (giyeok), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), which in this final position gives a nasal velar stop. This syllable is used in modern Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as 긍정 (positive attitude) and 긍지 (pride), where it carries a sense of affirmation or positivity. The character is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which contains a comprehensive set of all possible precomposed Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE0D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geung |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE0D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae0d |