U+AEB8 "꺸" Hangul Syllable Ggyaek Unicode Character
U+AEB8 "꺸" Hangul Syllable Ggyaek is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the Korean sound "ggyaek," a tense or fortis pronunciation of the syllable "gyae" followed by the final consonant "k." It is composed of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok, a double "g/k"), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, which was designed to encode all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllable combinations in a single code point for efficient text processing. In the Korean writing system, such syllables are used to write native Korean words or loanwords that require a precise phonetic representation, though "꺸" itself is rare in everyday usage and appears primarily in specific linguistic contexts or transliterations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEB8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyaek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaeb8 |