U+AE61 "깡" Hangul Syllable Ggang Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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