U+AEA2 "꺢" Hangul Syllable Ggyaegg Unicode Character
U+AEA2 "꺢" Hangul Syllable Ggyaegg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tense, double ㄱ sound), the medial vowel "yae" (a combination of ㅣ and ㅐ), and the final consonant "gg" (the same double consonant as the initial, serving as a closing sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, where thousands of such syllables are encoded to allow for efficient text representation without needing to dynamically compose each one from individual jamo components. It is used in writing Korean words or morphemes that contain this specific tense and double consonant structure, contributing to the language's nuanced phonological distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEA2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyaegg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꺠" U+AEA0 Hangul Syllable Ggyae "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEA2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEA2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaea2 |