U+AE79 "깹" Hangul Syllable Ggaeb Unicode Character
U+AE79 "깹" Hangul Syllable Ggaeb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggaeb." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense or double "g" sound) with the vowel "ㅐ" (a vowel pronounced like "ae" in "cat") and the final consonant "ㅂ" (a "b" sound), all of which are encoded as a single character for efficient text processing. This syllable falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) of the Unicode standard, which contains all 11,172 possible combinations of Hangul jamo letters in a systematic, standardized order. While relatively uncommon in contemporary Korean vocabulary, "깹" is part of the comprehensive set of syllables used for precise linguistic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE79 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggaeb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 깹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 깹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB9 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae79 |