U+AE62 "깢" Hangul Syllable Ggaj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
깢
U+AE62 "깢" Hangul Syllable Ggaj is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic value "ggaj," which combines the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, fortis "g" sound) with the vowel "ㅏ" (like the "a" in "father") and the final consonant "ㅈ" (pronounced as a "t" sound at the syllable's end). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order according to the Korean alphabet's logical structure. The syllable "깢" is used in modern Korean to form words or inflections that require a tense initial sound, often appearing in contexts where emphasis or distinction from its soft counterpart "가" is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE62 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggaj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE62 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae62 |