U+AE9C "꺜" Hangul Syllable Ggyak Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꺜
U+AE9C "꺜" Hangul Syllable Ggyak is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "ggyak," formed by combining the initial consonant 'ㄲ' (a tense, double 'g' sound) with the medial vowel 'ㅏ' (an 'a' sound) and the final consonant 'ᆨ' (a 'k' sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations based on the Korean writing system, and it is typically utilized in written Korean for specific lexical items or onomatopoeic expressions. Its composition reflects the systematic and phonetic nature of Hangul, where visual blocks correspond directly to spoken syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE9C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae9c |