U+AE2C "긬" Hangul Syllable Gyik Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
긬
U+AE2C "긬" Hangul Syllable Gyik is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "gyik." This character is formed from the initial consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ) and the medial vowel "yi" (ㅢ), combined with the syllable-final consonant "kieuk" (ㅋ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, its codepoint was assigned to support the efficient encoding of Korean text, allowing the single character to represent this complex phonetic combination without requiring a sequence of individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE2C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae2c |