U+AEC4 "껄" Hangul Syllable Ggeol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껄
U+AEC4 "껄" Hangul Syllable Ggeol is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the sound "ggeol," formed by combining the initial consonant ᄁ (ssanggiyeok, a doubled "g" sound) with the vowel ᅥ (eo, like the "u" in "fun") and the final consonant ᆯ (rieul, an "l" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants to facilitate modern digital text processing. In Korean, it appears in various words, such as "껄껄" (ggeolggeol), an onomatopoeic expression for a coarse or rough sound of laughter.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEC4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaec4 |