U+AE99 "꺙" Hangul Syllable Ggyang Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AE99 "꺙" Hangul Syllable Ggyang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, doubled 'g' or 'kk' sound) and the medial vowel "ㅑ" (the 'ya' sound) with the final consonant "ㅇ" (the 'ng' sound acting as a syllable-final coda). This syllable is used in the Korean language to write words like "꺙다" (to be sticky or viscous) and appears as part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which includes all possible syllable combinations formed from the Korean alphabet's initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants.

General Properties

Code Point U+AE99
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyang
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꺙
HTML Hex Encoding 꺙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBA 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAE99
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AE99
C/C++/Java Escape \uae99

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