U+AE9A "꺚" Hangul Syllable Ggyaj Unicode Character
U+AE9A "꺚" Hangul Syllable Ggyaj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing a single block that combines the initial consonant "gg" (a tensed or fortis sound derived from the basic consonant "g" or "ㄱ"), the vowel "ya" (ㅑ), and the final consonant "j" (ㅈ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes full syllable blocks rather than individual letters, allowing for efficient representation of Korean text. The syllable "꺚" is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as it belongs to a set of phonetically possible but infrequently used combinations, but its existence demonstrates the systematic and comprehensive nature of the Hangul writing system, where over 11,000 possible two or three letter syllable blocks can be formed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE9A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyaj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae9a |