U+AE2E "긮" Hangul Syllable Gyip Unicode Character
U+AE2E "긮" Hangul Syllable Gyip is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant giyeok (ㄱ), the vowel yi (ㅢ), and the final consonant bieup (ㅂ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet following the standard orthographic rules of South Korea. In practical usage, the syllable "긮" is extremely rare or nonexistent in standard Korean vocabulary, as it corresponds to a sound that does not occur in natural spoken Korean words. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures complete coverage for theoretical or historical linguistic representation, as well as for any potential future use in specialized fields such as typography or computational linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE2E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyip |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae2e |