U+AE8C "꺌" Hangul Syllable Ggyal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꺌
U+AE8C "꺌" Hangul Syllable Ggyal is a specific syllable block in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul. It is composed of three jamo or letters: the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense or double "g" sound), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (the vowel "ya"), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (an "l" sound). As a combined grapheme, it represents the phonetic syllable "ggyal", though it is not a commonly used word in standard Korean vocabulary and appears more frequently in older or specialized texts. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllable combinations formed from the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE8C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyal |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae8c |