U+AE28 "긨" Hangul Syllable Gyiss Unicode Character
U+AE28 "긨" Hangul Syllable Gyiss is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language, and represents the sound "gyiss" as a combination of the initial consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ), the medial vowel "yi" (ㅢ), and the final consonant "ssang shiot" (ㅆ). This specific syllable is exceedingly rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as the diphthong "ㅢ" combined with a double final consonant creates a sound pattern that does not correspond to any common standard Korean words, making it an artifact of the systematic syllabic encoding rather than a frequently used linguistic element. It is primarily of interest to typographers, linguists, and text processing specialists who study the extensive Hangul syllable block system, which includes many such theoretical or historical combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE28 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyiss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae28 |