U+AE17 "긗" Hangul Syllable Gyigs Unicode Character
U+AE17 "긗" Hangul Syllable Gyigs is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "gyigs," formed from the initial consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ), the medial vowel "yi" (ㅢ), and the final consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ), though it is notably a rare or archaically constructed syllable in modern Korean usage. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables block to enable full representation of all possible syllable combinations from the Korean writing system, preserving phonetic completeness even for infrequently used forms. Its practical occurrence is largely limited to historical texts, linguistic studies, or specific vocabulary where such a sound pattern appears, making it a specialized yet integral part of the digital encoding for the Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE17 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyigs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae17 |