U+AE6C "깬" Hangul Syllable Ggaen Unicode Character
U+AE6C "깬" Hangul Syllable Ggaen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound “ggaen,” formed from the initial consonant ᄁ (ssanggiyeok, a tense double “g”), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character for efficient text processing, commonly used in Korean vocabulary to express words where that specific syllable appears, such as in verbs or descriptive terms. Its composition reflects the block-based structure of Hangul, where letters are arranged into syllabic clusters rather than written linearly, and it follows the standard Unicode mapping that assigns distinct codes to all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE6C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggaen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "깨" U+AE68 Hangul Syllable Ggae "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE6C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae6c |