U+AE59 "깙" Hangul Syllable Ggalt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AE59 "깙" Hangul Syllable Ggalt is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "ggalt." It is constructed from a combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed or double "g" sound), the vowel "ㅏ" (the "a" sound as in "father"), and the final consonant "ㄹㅌ" (a complex cluster "lt" pronounced as a flap followed by a tense "t"). Part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary but exists within the standard encoding to ensure all possible syllable forms in the Korean script are represented.

General Properties

Code Point U+AE59
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggalt
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
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 깙
HTML Hex Encoding 깙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB9 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAE59
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AE59
C/C++/Java Escape \uae59

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter