U+AE1C "긜" Hangul Syllable Gyil Unicode Character
U+AE1C "긜" Hangul Syllable Gyil is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul block, representing the Korean sound "gyil" which combines the initial consonant giyeok (ㄱ), the medial vowel yi (ㅢ), and the final consonant rieul (ㄹ). This character is part of the extensive set of Hangul syllables encoded in Unicode to support the Korean writing system, where syllables are formed by combining individual jamo components into a single codepoint. As a rarely used syllable in contemporary Korean, "긜" may appear in specialized linguistic contexts, historical texts, or as a phonetic placeholder, but it is not commonly found in everyday vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that all valid Hangul syllabic combinations, even those with limited usage, are digitally representable for accurate text processing and preservation of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE1C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyil |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE1C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae1c |