U+AED5 "껕" Hangul Syllable Ggeot Unicode Character
U+AED5 "껕" Hangul Syllable Ggeot is a precomposed syllabic block in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggeot." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok, a tensed double "g" sound), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo, similar to the "u" in "cup"), and the final consonant "ㅌ" (tieut, an unaspirated "t" sound). This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants into single codepoints for efficient text processing. In modern Korean usage, syllables like 껕 are relatively rare, typically appearing in specialized vocabulary, transcriptions, or names rather than common everyday words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AED5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeot |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAED5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AED5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaed5 |