U+AE38 "길" Hangul Syllable Gil Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
길
U+AE38 "길" Hangul Syllable Gil is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the Korean word for "road," "path," or "way," and is pronounced as "gil" in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l), all combined into a single character within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard. This syllable is widely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing in common terms such as "길을 가다" (to go along a road) and metaphorical expressions like "인생의 길" (the path of life).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gil |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 길 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 길 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB8 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae38 |