U+AE8F "꺏" Hangul Syllable Ggyalb Unicode Character
U+AE8F "꺏" Hangul Syllable Ggyalb is a Korean syllable representing the phonetic sound "ggyalb," constructed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed "kk" sound), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (a "ya" sound), and the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" (a "lb" sound). This syllable is part of the modern Hangul block in the Unicode standard, which systematically encodes the complete set of Korean syllable glyphs for written communication. As a combination of these three jamo components, it follows the standard Korean orthographic practice of stacking characters into a single square-shaped unit, where the initial and final consonants are positioned at the top and bottom, respectively, and the vowel is placed to the right of the first consonant. While not a frequently encountered syllable in everyday Korean text, it demonstrates the comprehensive range of possible phonetic combinations that the Hangul writing system can express through its alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE8F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyalb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae8f |