U+AEA0 "꺠" Hangul Syllable Ggyae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꺠
U+AEA0 "꺠" Hangul Syllable Ggyae is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggyae," which is a tensed or reinforced pronunciation of the syllable "gyae." It is formed from the initial consonant ㄲ (double kiyeok, representing a tense /k͈/ sound) and the vowel ㅒ (yae, a diphthong beginning with a palatal glide). This syllable appears in Korean text as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the full range of CV (consonant-vowel) and CVc (consonant-vowel-consonant) syllable combinations used in standard Korean, enabling accurate digital representation and text processing for the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEA0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyae |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok "ᅤ" U+1164 Hangul Jungseong Yae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaea0 |