U+AE15 "긕" Hangul Syllable Gyig Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
긕
U+AE15 "긕" Hangul Syllable Gyig is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. This specific character represents the sound "gyig," formed by combining the initial consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ) with the vowel "yi" (ㅢ) and the final consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet as single code points for efficient text processing. While "긕" is a valid and defined syllable in the Unicode standard, it is considered rare and does not commonly appear in everyday Korean vocabulary or modern texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE15 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyig |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "긔" U+AE14 Hangul Syllable Gyi "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae15 |