U+AE48 "깈" Hangul Syllable Gik Unicode Character
U+AE48 "깈" Hangul Syllable Gik is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "g" (ㄱ) and the vowel "i" (ㅣ) followed by the final consonant "k" (ㅋ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the 24 basic and complex jamo letters of the Korean alphabet, and its numeric value in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms. While not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean, "깈" demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of Hangul, where each syllable block is composed in a logical grid pattern to capture distinct sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE48 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae48 |