U+AE12 "긒" Hangul Syllable Geup Unicode Character
U+AE12 "긒" Hangul Syllable Geup is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "geup." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (p), though the correct Middle or modern Korean reading typically corresponds to the syllable "급" (geup) rather than this specific glyph. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Hangul jamo, allowing for efficient text processing and display in digital environments. While it maintains Unicode’s goal of comprehensive script coverage, "긒" is rarely used in contemporary Korean texts, as it does not correspond to a standard or common lexical syllable in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE12 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geup |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE12 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE12 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae12 |