U+AEAF "꺯" Hangul Syllable Ggyaelh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AEAF "꺯" Hangul Syllable Ggyaelh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggyaelh" which combines the initial consonant "gg" (a tense, double letter equivalent of "g"), the medial vowel "yae" (a combination of the semivowel "y" and the vowel "ae"), and the final consonant "lh" (a double consonant cluster of "l" and "h"). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into single code points for efficient text processing. While not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it exists as a valid phonetic building block within the language's orthographic system, demonstrating the systematic and highly organized nature of the Hangul script's syllable construction.

General Properties

Code Point U+AEAF
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyaelh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꺯
HTML Hex Encoding 꺯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBA 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAEAF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AEAF
C/C++/Java Escape \uaeaf

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