U+AE61 "깡" Hangul Syllable Ggang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
깡
U+AE61 "깡" Hangul Syllable Ggang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "ggang." It is formed from the initial consonant ᄁ (ssanggiyeok, a tensed "kk" sound) and the vowel ㅏ (a), combined with the final consonant ᆼ (ieung, representing the "ng" sound). This character is used in the Korean writing system to write words such as "깡패" (ggangpae, meaning gangster) or in onomatopoeic expressions like "깡깡" to mimic a sharp, hard sound. Being part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it follows the standardized syllable structure of Korean, where each syllable block is encoded as a single codepoint for efficient text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE61 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE61 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae61 |