U+AE8B "꺋" Hangul Syllable Ggyad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꺋
U+AE8B "꺋" Hangul Syllable Ggyad is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "gyad" with a tense initial consonant "gg" (a double "g" or "k" sound) combined with the vowel "ya" and the final consonant "d". This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of possible syllable combinations formed from the basic jamo (letters) of the Korean alphabet. In standard Korean usage, "꺋" is a valid but rarely used syllable, typically appearing in specialized or phonetic contexts rather than common vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE8B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyad |
| 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 "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae8b |