U+AE5A "깚" Hangul Syllable Ggalp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
깚
U+AE5A "깚" Hangul Syllable Ggalp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, specifically representing the sound "ggalp." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" (lb), which in this case reads as the single final sound "lp" through standard Korean pronunciation rules. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block and serves as an example of how complex syllable blocks in Korean encode multiple phonemes into one typographic unit for efficient digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE5A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggalp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE5A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE5A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae5a |