U+AE21 "긡" Hangul Syllable Gyilt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AE21 "긡" Hangul Syllable Gyilt is a precomposed Hangul syllabic block representing the Korean syllable "gyilt," which combines the initial consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ), the medial vowel "yae" (ㅒ), and the final consonant "rieul" (ㄹ) to form a single, indivisible character. This syllable is not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary, as it belongs to the theoretical set of all possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system, many of which exist only in historical texts or as part of the complete inventory of 11,172 precomposed Hangul syllables encoded in Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point U+AE21
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyilt
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
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 긡
HTML Hex Encoding 긡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB8 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAE21
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AE21
C/C++/Java Escape \uae21

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter