U+AECA "껊" Hangul Syllable Ggeolp Unicode Character
U+AECA "껊" Hangul Syllable Ggeolp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tense, double ㄲ), the vowel "eo" (ㅓ), and the final consonant "lp" (a double consonant cluster pronounced as a tense ㄲ followed by a faint ㄹ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, this character allows for efficient digital text representation and processing of the Korean language, where such syllables are the standard unit of writing. Its structure follows the regular rules of Korean orthography, where individual jamo characters are combined into a single codepoint for ease of use in computing and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AECA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeolp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAECA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AECA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaeca |