U+AE5B "깛" Hangul Syllable Ggalh Unicode Character
U+AE5B "깛" Hangul Syllable Ggalh is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggalh" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄁ (ssang giyeok), the vowel ᅡ (a), and the final consonant ᄒ (hieut) in the batchim position. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single code point for efficient text processing and display. While not commonly used in modern standard Korean vocabulary, U+AE5B demonstrates the systematic structure of Hangul, where characters are formed by stacking leading consonants, medial vowels, and optional trailing consonants from the top left to the bottom right of the syllable block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE5B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggalh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae5b |