U+AE1A "긚" Hangul Syllable Gyinh Unicode Character
U+AE1A "긚" Hangul Syllable Gyinh is a precomposed syllable within the modern Hangul blocks of the Unicode standard, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ), the medial vowel "yi" (ㅢ), and the final consonant "nieun" (ㄴ). As a syllable in the Korean writing system, it corresponds to the sound "gyinh" and is constructed by the standard algorithmic composition of jamo characters, though it is extremely rare or nonexistent in actual modern Korean vocabulary due to the infrequency of the "ㅢ" vowel following velar consonants in native or Sino-Korean words. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation for historical, linguistic, or theoretical use cases, allowing systems to display and process this syllable without needing to decompose it into its individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE1A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyinh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae1a |