U+AEBE "꺾" Hangul Syllable Ggeogg Unicode Character
U+AEBE "꺾" Hangul Syllable Ggeogg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the sound "ggeogg." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok, a double aspirated 'k' sound), the vowel "ㅓ" (eo, roughly like the 'u' in "cup"), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, a 'k' sound) as a batchim (bottom consonant). It is one of thousands of syllabic blocks in the Hangul Unicode block, used to write Korean words where this specific phonetic combination occurs, typically in verb stems or descriptive terms. The character's structure follows the standard CVC (consonant vowel consonant) syllable pattern of Hangul, ensuring it renders compactly and semantically as a single unit in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEBE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeogg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꺼" U+AEBC Hangul Syllable Ggeo "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEBE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaebe |