U+AE16 "긖" Hangul Syllable Gyigg Unicode Character
U+AE16 "긖" Hangul Syllable Gyigg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing a specific phonetic block in the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "기역" (giyeok, pronounced as a soft 'g' or 'k'), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i, pronounced like the 'ee' in 'see'), and the final consonant "ㄲ" (ssang giyeok, a double 'k' sound that creates a tense or glottalized articulation). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is encoded to allow efficient text representation and processing in digital environments, though it is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary, with no common words using this specific syllable. Its existence highlights the systematic nature of the Korean script, where all possible combinations of initials, vowels, and finals have their own Unicode positions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE16 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyigg |
| 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 "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae16 |