U+AE44 "깄" Hangul Syllable Giss Unicode Character
U+AE44 "깄" Hangul Syllable Giss is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "giss" which combines the initial consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ) with the vowel "i" (ㅣ) and the final consonant "ssang shiot" (ㅆ). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range that encodes all logically possible syllable blocks formed by combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants according to the standard Korean orthography. In actual modern Korean usage, the character "깄" may be less common than simpler syllables, but it demonstrates the systematic nature of Hangul, where each syllable block is assigned a unique code point to facilitate digital text processing, storage, and display across various platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE44 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Giss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae44 |