U+AE8E "꺎" Hangul Syllable Ggyalm Unicode Character
U+AE8E "꺎" Hangul Syllable Ggyalm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system Hangul, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tensed /k/ sound), the medial vowel "ya" (a palatal glide with /a/), and the final consonant "lm" (a sequence of /l/ and /m/). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to accurately transcribe specific lexical items or morphological forms where that syllable appears, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for the Korean language, maintaining the integrity of its unique syllabic writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE8E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyalm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae8e |