U+AE72 "깲" Hangul Syllable Ggaelm Unicode Character
U+AE72 "깲" Hangul Syllable Ggaelm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggaelm." It is formed from the initial consonant ㄲ (ssanggiyeok, a double aspirated "g" sound) and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum, an "m" sound), surrounding the vowel 애 (ae, pronounced like the "a" in "cat" combined with a forward "e"). This specific syllable appears in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations using the Korean alphabet as defined by the KS X 1001 standard and Unicode normalization. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, "깲" may be used in certain dialectal pronunciations, archaic spellings, or onomatopoeic words, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate digital representation for scholarly, linguistic, and typographic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE72 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggaelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE72 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae72 |