U+AED8 "께" Hangul Syllable Gge Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
께
U+AED8 "께" Hangul Syllable Gge is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean phonetic sound "gge," which is a tensed or reinforced version of the "ge" sound. It is formed from the initial consonant ᄁ (ssanggiyeok, a double ㄱ) and the vowel ㅔ (e), and it is commonly used in Korean writing as a respectful or honorific particle in verb conjugations, such as in the expression "께서" (kkeseo) to mark a subject with deference. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the complete set of modern Korean syllable combinations based on the logical compositional structure of the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AED8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gge |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok "ᅦ" U+1166 Hangul Jungseong E |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 께 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 께 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAED8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AED8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaed8 |