U+AEC0 "껀" Hangul Syllable Ggeon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껀
U+AEC0 "껀" Hangul Syllable Ggeon is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "ggeon" which combines the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok) with the vowel "ㅓ" (eo) and final consonant "ㄴ" (nieun) as part of the modern Hangul writing system. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, a range that includes all possible syllable blocks formed from the 19 initial consonants, 21 medial vowels, and 28 final consonants of standard Korean orthography. In practical use, "껀" appears in Korean text as a single, indivisible unit, allowing for efficient digital encoding and display of the language's syllabic structure without requiring separate composition of its constituent jamo (letter) components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEC0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeon |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEC0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEC0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaec0 |