U+AE18 "긘" Hangul Syllable Gyin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
긘
U+AE18 "긘" Hangul Syllable Gyin is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant "기역" (g), the medial vowel "이" (i), and the final consonant "니은" (n) to produce the reading "gyin". This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible syllable combinations in modern Korean. While "긘" itself is not a common word in everyday Korean usage, it is used for phonetic transcription or in specific linguistic contexts, and its encoding allows digital systems to correctly display and process this valid but rare Hangul syllable together with its neighbors in the standard Unicode range.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE18 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyin |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE18 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae18 |