U+AEC8 "껈" Hangul Syllable Ggeols Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AEC8 "껈" Hangul Syllable Ggeols is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggeols." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok, a tensed double consonant) with the vowel "ㅓ" (eo) and the final consonant cluster "ㄹㅅ" (rieul and siot, or a complex final). This syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single codepoint for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and standard character in Korean typography, it is relatively rare in everyday language due to the specific consonant cluster and tensed initial.

General Properties

Code Point U+AEC8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggeols
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 껈
HTML Hex Encoding 껈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBB 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAEC8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AEC8
C/C++/Java Escape \uaec8

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