U+AE87 "꺇" Hangul Syllable Ggyags Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AE87 "꺇" Hangul Syllable Ggyags is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggyags," formed from the initial consonant "gg," the medial vowel "ya," and the final consonant "gs." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of syllable blocks that combine Korean letters (jamo) into a single square character for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and defined syllable, it is considered rare in contemporary Korean usage, as the combination of a double initial consonant with the complex final consonant cluster "gs" does not occur in standard native Korean vocabulary, making it primarily a theoretical or historic construct within the Hangul character set.

General Properties

Code Point U+AE87
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyags
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "꺄" U+AE84 Hangul Syllable Ggya
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꺇
HTML Hex Encoding 꺇
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBA 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAE87
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AE87
C/C++/Java Escape \uae87

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter