U+AE43 "깃" Hangul Syllable Gis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
깃
U+AE43 "깃" Hangul Syllable Gis is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "gis," formed by combining the initial consonant "기역" (giyeok, equivalent to 'g') with the vowel "이" (i) and the final consonant "시옷" (siot, representing the 't' sound when in a final position). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all 11,172 possible syllables of the modern Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient text representation and display. In Korean, "깃" commonly means a "flag" or "banner," as well as referring to the "quill" or "feather" of a bird, making it a meaningful and frequently used word in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE43 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gis |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae43 |