U+AE54 "깔" Hangul Syllable Ggal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
깔
U+AE54 "깔" Hangul Syllable Ggal is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggal" with a doubled initial consonant. It is formed by combining the consonant phoneme “ㄲ” (a tense, doubled version of “ㄱ”, romanized as "gg") with the vowel “ㅏ” (a, pronounced like the "a" in "father") and the final consonant “ㄹ” (l, a liquid sound similar to the English "l" in "light"). This syllable is commonly used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as "깔다" (to spread or lay down) and "깔때기" (a funnel). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all logically possible syllable combinations for the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE54 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggal |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "까" U+AE4C Hangul Syllable Gga "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae54 |