U+AE31 "긱" Hangul Syllable Gig Unicode Character
U+AE31 "긱" Hangul Syllable Gig is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "gig" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to spell words or morphemes where this specific sound occurs. Like other Hangul syllables, "긱" is typically rendered in a square block shape, aligning with the typographic conventions of the Korean script, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and systems for text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE31 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gig |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "기" U+AE30 Hangul Syllable Gi "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 긱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 긱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE31 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae31 |