U+AE30 "기" Hangul Syllable Gi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
기
U+AE30 "기" Hangul Syllable Gi is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "gi" as part of the modern Hangul script. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄀ (giyeok) with the medial vowel ᅵ (i), and it is one of the most frequently used syllables in the Korean language, appearing in common words such as "기차" (train), "기" (energy or spirit), and "기억" (memory). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations for standard modern Korean, allowing efficient text representation without needing to dynamically compose characters from individual jamo.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE30 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gi |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 기 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 기 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae30 |