U+AED2 "껒" Hangul Syllable Ggeoj Unicode Character
U+AED2 "껒" Hangul Syllable Ggeoj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "ggeoj" which combines the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double 'g/k'), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (a mid back unrounded vowel similar to 'eo'), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (a 'j' sound). This syllable is encoded as a single unified character in the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, ranging from U+AC00 to U+D7AF, where it is assigned based on the standard algorithmic ordering of all possible 11,172 modern Hangul syllable combinations. While this specific syllable is relatively rare in common Korean vocabulary, it may appear in specialized linguistic contexts, transliterations of foreign words, or in creative writing, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and text processing across different platforms and languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AED2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeoj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAED2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AED2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaed2 |