U+AE68 "깨" Hangul Syllable Ggae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
깨
U+AE68 "깨" Hangul Syllable Ggae is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggae." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed or double "g" sound) and the vowel "ㅐ" (the vowel "ae"). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient digital text processing. In everyday Korean usage, "깨" appears in common words such as "깨다" (to break or to wake up) and "깨소금" (sesame salt), reflecting its role in both verb stems and compound nouns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE68 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggae |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok "ᅢ" U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE68 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae68 |